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at that generally in his dreams. With a sun that 

 burned through their shirts, these knights of the rod 

 stuck to a spring hole they had located and from 90 

 feet of water caught 48 small-mouth bass, ten of 

 which ranged from 3^ to 5 pounds. And the bait 

 they used was the common, wiggling angleworm. 

 That same day many fishermen were casting in the 

 shallows and failed to bring in enough bass to make 

 a fair-sized breakfast. 



BIG ONES WERE THERE 



The wall-eyed pike is by nature a bottom fish and 

 at any time of the season you have to go down for 

 him, although at night he often comes into the shal- 

 lows to feed. The usual thing is to troll for them 

 in from 15 to 30 feet of water. I have always had 

 an idea, Old Timer, that in deep lakes you. could find 

 him in warm weather in deeper water. I tried it 

 out and sure enough I found him there. I trolled 

 over a piece of near shore water, with a depth of 

 about 15 feet, and the average wall-eye caught 

 ranged from one and a half to two pounds. I then 

 rigged up a regular deep-water trolling rig, gener- 

 ally used for lake trout, and the first strike was a 

 six-pounder. I trolled back and forth over this 

 stretch of water and landed seven wall-eyed ranging 

 from three and a quarter to seven and a half pounds. 

 The average depth of the water was about 45 feet, 

 it varying between 30 and 60 feet. 



