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game as in the mill ponds in the interior; and 

 not so full of fight even there as in the midland 

 streams. 



All fish may not be cannibals, but the bass 

 certainly is one, for it will take a small one of 

 its own species as readily as if it was ignorant. 



Fish are more weather-wise than men. They 

 know 12 hours ahead of the weather man when 

 there will be rain or east wind, and on the pros- 

 pect of rain washing into the water a plentiful 

 supply of fresh victuals they keep "fast" 

 against the baited hook. 



They do not possess such an acute sense of 

 hearing as of sight and feeling, or touch. They 

 will not bite during a thunder storm, not be- 

 cause of the noise but on account of feeling the 

 jar in the water more sensitively. Silence, how- 

 ever, is always desirable and often necessary in 

 bass fishing. Unlike the pike which is inquisi- 

 tive about noise or the composition of any mov- 

 ing attraction, the bass is wary beyond reason 

 and methodical in this distemper. Curiosity 

 plays no part in his modus vivendi. Strictly 

 game fish look upward for "grub," and that 



