i8o LAKE AND STREAM GAME FISHING 



waukee, Wisconsin, landed a six-pound, large-mouth 

 bass while fishing at four o'clock in the morning, at 

 which time the fish are usually on the feed, the heat 

 later in the day driving them to the deep holes from 

 which they are particularly hard to coax with any 

 kind of bait or lure. Here are a few words from 

 George on his bass: 



" I landed this bass in the Wolf River at Fre- 

 mont, Wisconsin. It is the largest bass I ever have 

 caught and it sure made some fight before I netted 

 it. The bass from the Wolf River are scrappers 

 and this one was no exception. He took the frog, 

 hook and all, and after playing with it for a while 

 headed for the weeds. Then he found out he was 

 hooked and turned on the line, got a little slack and 

 hopped out of the water clear into the air for a shake 

 that certainly showed his strength. I made the reel 

 sing and jerked him ' off his feet ' before he loosened 

 the hook. I played him for about thirty-five minutes 

 and it was some sport. He made other breaks out 

 of the water, but none like the first." 



Many fellows might overlook one lone rush stick- 

 ing up out of the water as the lounging place of a 

 six-and-a-half-pound, large-mouth bass, but not so 

 C. E. Peterson of Chicago, who cast his lure along- 

 side of a solitary old rush and was rewarded with 

 an exciting few minutes before he landed his prize, 

 and the following story shows that it pays to keep 

 the eyes open : 



