HOT WEATHER FISHING 



When the days are hot and the old sun is doing 

 his best for the corn and his worst for the fisherman, 

 it takes our entire deck of tricks to lure the game 

 fish out of the deep, cool holes. Mid-summer heat 

 drives the fish down to great depth in search of cold 

 water and during only a few hours in the very early 

 morning and at night do they come into the shallows 

 to feed. At that time casting will land 'em; the rest 

 of the day youVe simply to go down for them or 

 sit on the cabin porch and hold a talkfest on how 

 you landed that " big 'un " a couple of years ago. 



SEND THE BAIT DOWN 



For the hot weather, the greatest little old coaxer 

 is live bait. Among the most used live kinds are 

 the minnow, worms, helgramite, crawfish and frogs, 

 while the grasshopper if used as a surface bait on 

 streams will get a rise out of a big trout or bass 

 when he wouldn't even take a look at a fly. 



If you are after bass, Old Man, when the mercury 

 is popping high, locate a sand-bar or spring hole 

 anywhere from thirty to a hundred feet down, if 

 your fishing waters go that deep, and let your little 

 old live bait slowly settle to them and you will get 



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