BAIT CASTING FOR BASS 



casting has been developed to a wonderful degree. 

 In the fall of 1914, in an angling tournament, the 

 regulation half-ounce weight was cast two hundred 

 and twenty-two feet one inch, this being an average 

 of five different casts. Such work as this would 

 have been deemed impossible ten years ago. It will 

 no doubt be some time before you can do that, per- 

 haps some time before that angler can do it again. 

 That is almost seventy-five yards rather farther 

 than you can kill a duck with a shotgun. 



In accuracy also the records are wonderful. In 

 tournament casting with the quarter-ounce weight, 

 two casts each at the distance of sixty, sixty-five, 

 seventy, seventy-five, and eighty feet, another angler 

 had an average of ninety-nine and six-tenths per cent 

 almost perfect casting. The standard event in 

 these casting tournaments is the accuracy event with 

 the half -ounce weight a half-ounce more nearly ap- 

 proximating the weight of the average fishing bait 

 than the delicate quarter-ounce weight. In this 

 event one angler scored ninety-nine and six-tenths 

 per cent also practically perfect casting. One may 

 tie this record but cannot beat it very far. 



In the earlier tournaments a fifty-yard cast with 

 the half-ounce bait was thought wonderful. When 

 it went up to one hundred and ninety-four feet 

 eight inches, in 1906, everyone thought the limit had 



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