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creeled, and still farther another bass, but this ends 

 the stream fishing, as the fisherman has now reached 

 the lake of which the river is the outlet. 



On the shore of the lake stands a boat-house. Un- 

 locking the door, our friend enters and removes his 

 waders. He gets into a large, flat-bottomed row-boat, 

 gives the fly-wheel of the out-board motor a whirl, and 

 goes "putt-putting" across the lake. At the end of the 

 lake is a bed of lily pads and spatterdock and a weed- 

 less hook and chunk of pork replaces the spinner, fly 

 and strip. An hour's casting among these weeds scores 

 two good, large mouth bass. 



Now he heads out into the lake again, until he comes 

 to a submerged weed bed. Here an artificial bait of 

 the semi-surface type is used. The fisherman permits 

 the boat to drift and makes short casts ahead of him, 

 first to the extreme right, then diagonally out, and then 

 straight ahead. The first trip over the bed produces a 

 bass, so he tries it again with the same result. The 

 third attempt is fishless, so once more he travels on. 



This time, he goes to the other shore, near some 

 islands, where the bottom is gravelly and there are 

 numerous underwater rocky ledges small mouth bass 

 water. 



The short rod is now given a rest, and a longer, 

 lighter one put into service. The lure now is a live 

 minnow, hooked through the lips, and it is cast with 

 an easy sweeping side cast, so as not to jerk it from the 



