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vives capture a long time, and even the 

 merciful blow upon the base of the skull 

 sometimes is not sufficient to make him 

 "stay killed." 



The bass is taken in all sorts of ways, 

 and with a great variety of lures. Still- 

 fishing, trolling, minnow-casting, and fly- 

 casting are all employed. The still-fisher's 

 outfit is generally the most ample, as the 

 bass is noted among fish for the catholi- 

 city and variability of his taste minnows, 

 shrimps, crickets, grasshoppers, helgram- 

 ites, dew-worms, and what not. Pretty 

 certainly, if the angler has depended upon 

 a professional fisherman for his bait, he 

 will find himself overstocked with what 

 the fish were taking day before yesterday, 

 and scantily supplied with what they wish 

 to-day. Even with all the baits known 

 to the fisherman, he may fail to find the 

 fish in his favorite places a fact which 

 has led some to suppose that they make 

 circuits of the sheet of water they inhabit, 

 staying but a short time in one place. It 

 is possible to fish a well-stocked pond often 

 without finding the fish at all. Minnow- 

 casting and fly-fishing are, after all, much 

 the more satisfactory methods of fishing. 

 They have much the same kind of inter- 

 est: by them both a great deal of water 

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