THE BASSES: FRES H-W ATER AND MARINE 



waters ruffled by a rippling breeze, a bass might 

 have been struck, which on light trout tackle would 

 have tingled his blood in the striking and taxed his 

 best skill in handling, and our angler, like many 

 others known to me, would have soon forgotten his 

 old love and ardently burned for the new. 



Trolling with Flies 



I do not pretend to assert that lake fishing with a 

 fly for black bass is always a failure, for I have 

 caught the muscular small-mouth when casting and 

 skittering the feathers on the uncertain bosom of 

 Lake Champlain, but it has always been over rocky 

 ledges and at the mouths of inflowing streams. 

 Nor do I deny that trolling with flies or allowing 

 the flies, when cast, to sink two or three feet below 

 the surface and then drawing them slowly in, is 

 not of ttimes a killing method. But and alas \ - 

 after all it is simply bait-fishing with the fly (your 

 lure goes to the fish, the fish does not come to it), 

 and, as such, should be deprecated by the true 

 angler, except, of course, where food is necessary 

 for camp use, when the spear, the net, and all 

 the contrivances of the pot-fisher are permissible 

 to the extent only of the demands of an urgent 

 stomach. 



Every living thing inhabiting the stream (the 

 surface bug, the mid-water minnow, or the bottom 



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