Some Fishing Pretenses 



herent and tantalizing meanness can 

 account for the manner in which a 

 black bass will even then rush for the 

 bait, and after actually mouthing it 

 will turn about and insultingly whack 

 it with his tail. An angler who has 

 seen this performance finds, in his de- 

 sire to make things even with such 

 unmannerly wretches, a motive in ad- 

 dition to all others for a relentless 

 pursuit of the bass family. 



Another and more encouraging 

 stage in bass fishing is reached when 

 biting seems to be the order of the 

 day. It must not be supposed, how- 

 ever, that thereupon the angler's 

 troubles and perplexities are over, or 

 that nothing stands in the way of an 

 easy and satisfying catch. Experience 

 in this kind of fishing never fails to 

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