FIFTY LARGE-MOUTH BASS AND HOW 

 THEY CAME TO GAFF 



A REVIEW OF THE BAITS, THE TIME AND THE 



CONDITION OF THE WEATHER WHEN 



THESE BASS WERE LANDED 



What is really the best bass bait is a question that 

 would stagger any fisherman; that is, to give any- 

 thing more than a general idea of what has been 

 considered the regular old line dope. But giving a 

 line of information based on the experiences of fifty 

 fishermen during a single season, stacks us up against 

 a real bunch of facts and figures that makes good 

 data for our memory book. What color makes the 

 old " he-wop " fighting mad, and at what part of 

 the season is he particularly fond of the chunk of 

 red cedar, the fat juicy pork rind, or the wiggling 

 minnow and frog? 



Here's the dope on fifty large-mouth bass weigh- 

 ing from five pounds up to eight and one-half, and 

 it makes the past performance sheet of an u also 

 ran " look like an A-B-C chart. Twenty-two of 

 these bass answered to the call of the artificial 

 wooden plug or bait; nine of them fell for the 

 wiggling pork rind; eight came to gaff through their 



