50 LAKE AND STREAM GAME FISHING 

 FULL OF THRILLS 



And this only leads up to what you may expect 

 to experience, Old Man, 'when you hook your first 

 bass in the dead of night. Not a moonlight night, 

 mind you, but a simon pure pitch-dark affair, when 

 the big u he-whops " are flopping around making a 

 night of it and feeding to their hearts' content. If 

 you don't discover on your first night-fishing expedi- 

 tion that you have an entirely unknown set of nerves 

 with a bunch of jumps and thrills that you have never 

 experienced before, you are of a different make-up 

 from the ordinary old scout who follows the glad- 

 some call of the lakes and streams. 



There is a fascination about night fishing that can 

 be found in no other angle of the game, and once 

 you have " set in " you will make it part of each 

 fishing trip to have a few sessions with the big fins 

 that stay up all night. 



STURDY TACKLE NECESSARY 



For night fishing you will of course use your steel 

 rod, for the reason that it is built for sturdier work 

 than the split-bamboo, and you never can tell what 

 you are going to run up against in a night foray. 

 For instance a musky. What luck to hook one 

 of these boys and have him dish up his tailful of 

 tricks while you have your hands wrapped around a 



