46 LAKE AND STREAM GAME FISHING 



To illustrate this point, Old Man, at the opening 

 of the season I took a flyer at bass. It had been 

 cold and rainy, with high waters, and the bass were 

 quiet and far-offish. My tackle box was decked out 

 with a collection of lures guaranteed to make any 

 bass nervous, jealous or fighting mad. The bass 

 sure were off their feed, both in color and shape. 

 Nothing seemed to coax them out of the wet. I 

 snapped on a South Bend Bass-ereno bait, all white 

 with a red head, and tried that as an enticer. Noth- 

 ing doing with the bass, but I had as nice a piece of 

 wall-eyed pike fishing as a fellow could find any- 

 where. Almost every cast brought a strike, and in 

 the afternoon's casting this little old bass lure hooked 

 32 wall-eyed pike, all of which were thrown back in 

 the drink except the larger ones and that left a 

 stringer with the limit and none below two pounds, 

 topped with a six and a half pounder. My fishing 

 pal and guide had the same luck with a white Wilson 

 Wobbler with red flutes, by which he swears like a 

 pagan. They were sure off the bass, but on the 

 pike. 



THE COLORS THEY LIKE 



As to color, the preference seems to be with white 

 body and red head, followed by all red, all yellow, 

 green back with white belly and rainbow, but what 

 they take one day may be passed without a squint 

 the next. However, with the above colors in your 



