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FOREST AND STREAM 
July, 1922 
YOU’RE 
IN 
LUCK 
if you find another reel as 
universally satisfactory as 
MEISSELBACH 
** Fishing Reels of Quality’* 
BUT LUCK isn’t a thing 
you want to depend on 
when a big fellow is on 
your line. 
Every Meisselbach reel has behind 
it a heritage of years of satisfac- 
tion to particular anglers. Luck 
ceases to be an element after your 
fish strikes. Your Meisselbach reel 
is sure to bring him in. 
Meisselbach reels have the distinc- 
tive “takapart” feature and are 
recognized as the standard of qual- 
ity by men who know. 
“Takapart” 
“Tripart” 
“Rainbow” 
“Neptune’ 
“Triton” 
“Surf” 
Write for Catalog D 7 
A. F. MEISSELBACH 
MFC. CO. 
OTTO HEINEMAN, President 
25 West 45th St. New York City 
JOE WELSH 
LEADERS 
DONTBBtAK'^’ 
The genuine Telerana Nova is 
the cheapest and best by actual 
test. Thousands of the best 
anglers in the world are using 
them. Why not you? Univer- 
sally praised, strong, knotless, 
durable; one trial will con- 
vince iho most skeptical. For 
trial, I will mail you a 3-ft. in any Bass or Trout size 
for 25c; C-ft., 50c; or 9*ft., 75c. One Leader will last 
you two seasons and then be good. Prices lor Salmon 
sizes on application. 
Again, here is what Ihe average angler has been looking 
for: Limerick Hooks, T. D. Eye No. 2, 4, 0. 8, 10 and 12. 
tied on Joe Welsh’s Snells, making the hook the weakest 
part of your tackle. All sizes Sl.ou per dozen. Save your 
hsh liy using this new snelled hook. They do not get 
brittle with age. 
The Blue Devil darning needle floats. Bass and Trout 
sizes with three foot leader attached, 75c. 
The “Welsherana” transparent minnows in five colors 
are the latest and best in Plugdom. Trout and Bass 
sizes $1.00 each, can be used on a 
fly rod or bail-casting rod. 
A sample order of the above will 
prove to vou that Joe Welsh's goods 
Is in a class by itself. 
Most dealers handle my goods. If 
yours don't write roe. 
JOE WELSH 
PASADENA, CALIFORNIA. 
Distributors for U. S. and Canada. 
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JAMES HEDDON’S SONS, Dowagiac, Michigan. 
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Expert advice on all fishery matters. Angling 
waters examined and reported on in regard 
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development of waters for Ouananiche and 
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Tuxedo Park, N. Y. 
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THE CHIEF OF THE 
TRIBE OF BASS 
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water performer; the former floats or is ^ 
impelled on the surface and does not 
submerge. While success in some meas- 
ure is had fishing with these floating 
bugs in the morning I have found that 
toward dusk and even into the dusk is 
the true time for them. At such times ' 
the bass are in-shore — where they are , 
feeding at the edges of drooping grasses 
and low-hanging foliage, under over- | 
hanging hanks and beside drifts — and the 
bug fly flicked in close to shore and 
moved temptingly outward with gentle 
twitches of the rod will lure many a 
bass to strike. In the twilight, when fish- 
ing a stream with the floating bug, it is 
fascinating indeed to float down close to 
shore and cast up to the edges. And 
that some of the largest of the bass are 
thus captured there can be no doubt. | 
What does the bass take this floating 
bug to be? This is, of course, open to 
speculation. It is highly probable that 
the bass wastes no time speculating on it ; j 
he strikes first and loses or wins his food. ] 
My belief is that it is taken to be some ] 
land animal, a mouse, for instance, or a 
young frog. By the crawling or swim- j 
ming motion given the bug by twitches 
of th'e rod the movements of the latter, 
in a case of this sort, are very nearly 
perfectly imitated. If I were to state 
my opinion I should say that it is taken 
to he a frog; certainly not any manner 
of winged fly, especially when moving on 
the water in a swimming motion such as 
the angler gives it. 
During the seasons when bass visit the 
shallow waters the lighter artificial lures 
should bring in all the lusty bass of this 
specie that one desires. In the hottest 
part of the summer deep fishing may he 
resorted to, using live lures, minnows, 
crabs and helgramite; but for shallow 
water fishing commend me to the lighter 
lures every time; either the fly and spin- 
ner combination or the floating bugs, of 
which there are now so many on the 
market, many of them surprisingly effi- 
cient. 
In the lakes where the small-mouths 
are found they have a distinct liking for 
those in-shorc waters full of tumbled-in 
rocks. If such waters be not the home 
of freshwater crabs, then of course they 
can readily he stocked with them. If 
deep water obtains along a lake’s shore, 
and no logs and trees are found in the 
water, if such will be dumped or dropped 
in they will provide places where the 
bass will almost be sure to come, and 
around such places the fishing will be 
excellent. Many a fine bass is taken 
from under the shadov/ of a log in the 
in-shore waters. 
W ITHIN the last five years the small- 
mouth bass has truly come into its 
own. It seems strange that before this 
it did not have a wider vogue as a game 
fish — considering that the large-mouth 
occupied first place in the piscatorial re- 
countings. Just now the propagation of 
this wonderful fish is claiming much at- 
tention and many waters are being 
stocked that previously had none of these 
fish in their reaches. 
In Writing to Advertisers mention Forest and Stream. It will identify you. 
