LET US GO AFIELD 



minnow, glass cylinders with live minnows inside 

 them and hooks outside them, plugs, bugs, nipples, 

 bulbs, feathers, glass, tinsel: all these things you 

 can buy if you like, and probably you will like if 

 you see them on the counter. 



The art of bait casting originally had to do with 

 the use of live bait, and the long rod of old gave 

 a gentle delivery of a live bait. It is a cruel thing 

 to cast a live frog, and the ordinary bait caster's 

 outfit certain dozens of live frogs squatting in a 

 basket awaiting their turn at impalement and fling- 

 ing half a hundred yards through the air, only to 

 alight in a life-extinguishing thump on the water 

 that sort of thing does not stand analysis, although 

 that sort of thing is precisely what bait casting is 

 in its most usual phase. Therefore, kill your frog 

 rap his head over the side of the boat before you 

 use him, since he must die. Depend for the rest 

 upon your skill in delivering the dead frog and re- 

 trieving him so that he shall look alive. 



When a bass strikes a frog or a minnow of any 

 size, almost invariably he will do so from the side. 

 I have seen a bass hold a frog, his head and legs 

 sticking out the sides of his mouth, for what seemed 

 to be two or three minutes, just lying still and not 

 making a move ! A bass will grasp a frog thus and 

 move off several yards, usually, before he turns the 



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