THE BASSES: FRES H-W ATER AND MARINE 



this famous bass pool. He will, no doubt, find 

 others there, the locality being well known and fre- 

 quented by many fishermen. But nobody could 

 pass by such a splendid place without having a 

 cast from the lower end of this rushing torrent. 

 For my own part I rarely go far away from 

 " The Fok," and the angler will do well to try 

 the long deep pool at sundown early in the season. 

 If a fine evening the wind usually drops, and all 

 is calm on the surface except for the " plop-plop " 

 of the rising bass. With a cast of two or three 

 flies a brown, a gray, and a red dropped 

 lightly, if possible, over the place where the fish 

 are rising, the reel will probably spin to a lively 

 tune. A small handy net saves time in landing. 

 There will be plenty of work, or play, just as the 

 angler chooses to make it, until dark, and after 

 dark for that matter. The fish will go on taking 

 the fly, as they can see just as well as in the day- 

 light. But to my mind there is little pleasure in 

 fishing in the dark. It is difficult to bring the 

 fish to the net, and, flies will get entangled, espe- 

 cially if pussy-willows form a background. So 

 I generally wind up when the stars begin to 

 twinkle, trudge off home, take off my boots, wash, 

 and eat a hearty supper, and then sit on the piazza 

 smoking and planning what to use and where to 

 go on the morrow, going to bed with a hope that 

 no rain will come in the night to flood the stream. 



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