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THE THREE BEST NATURE LURES FOR 

 BASS 



The crawfish, helgramite, and lamper eel are ex- 

 clusively bass food — pike, pickerel, and trout have 

 little or no use for them. With a quantity of live 

 baits on a fishing trip to lake or stream, I should be 

 very confident of getting plenty of bass at any time, 

 in any locality and under any weather condition. 



Naturally they are most effective in river fish- 

 ing, because they breed and live in rivers. On 

 those three splendid bass rivers, the Schuylkill, Sus- 

 quehanna, and Delaware, the crawfish and helgra- 

 mite stand first in the heart of every angler who 

 loves bass fishing ; indeed, those three baits are uni- 

 versally used on those streams and on many other 

 lesser bass streams. To my thinking, river fishing 

 is in every respect infinitely more delightful than 

 lake fishing, whatever method and baits are em- 

 ployed. 



The helgramite is most popular for the reason 



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