How to Get Them 



hook, quite lively, but soon die. In that condition 

 they are useless. They should be hooked a little 

 above the middle near the head, and are 

 used mostly for casting, still-fishing, and 

 skittering, not for trolling. They should be kept 

 in cool water with a plentiful supply of grass ; they 

 are not so hardy, and rarely live through the day, 

 unless the water is constantly changed and kept 

 cool. Bass take them with avidity, and so do large 

 chub, sometimes trout. 



The small catfish is another favorite bait with 

 many bass anglers. They can easily be captured 

 under stones along the shores. Get a good heavy 

 stone to use as a hammer, and on seeing a stone 

 with a shelving side, and flat at the bottom, strike 

 it quickly and sharply on its top ; lift it up at once, 

 and you may find underneath one or more catfish 

 from two to four inches long, stunned 

 Catfish anc * ne lpl ess - Seize them quickly, avoid- 

 ing the back spines, as they recover and 

 disappear almost in an instant. This bait is 

 very tenacious of life, and on a single one as 

 many as five bass have been caught before the 

 catfish died. 



Young frogs are often used for bait with good 



success in running streams as well as marshy 



ponds; also the hind legs skinned, of the larger 



frogs ; they may be skittered on the surface, in still- 



fishing, and a favorite method is to allow 



them to float down a runway. In hooking 



them, the point should be inserted through the 



under lip and brought through the tip of the nose 



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