August, 1920 
FOREST AND STREAM 
461 
cf taking more out now are small, as the 
firs 4 rush is the most vicious he will 
make, besides he is at a perfect balance 
with the weight of dragging line and 
backbone of the springy rod. Six hun- 
dred feet is not so great a distance when 
viewed from certain angles, but the 
man who had his first experience with 
that amount of line going out from under 
his burning thumb at the impulse of a 
threshing, gliding channel bass, may well 
be excused for estimating the distance 
at something over a milo. The battle 
may continue under different conditions 
for upwards of an hour, the fish in turn 
diving and sulking at the bottom,' then 
swimming at the surface, threshing at 
the restraining line with his tail and re- 
sorting to all expedients known to fish- 
cunning to extricate the hook from its 
hold in the jaw. Many times during the 
fight the game will permit itself to be 
reeled quite near the shore when the pug- 
nacious spirit will assert its rank and 
agam go plunging to the first distance 
taken. When tired nature can no longer 
maintain the stress of the all-compelling 
rod, the quarry is beached at last. The 
human conqueror, with mingled emo- 
tions, may well gloat over as beautiful 
and worthy a captive as will ever fall to 
the efforts of his rod and reel. 
MEMOIRS OF A BASS 
FISHERMAN 
(CONTINUED FROM PAGE 437 ) 
more, in my experience at least, they are 
not so successful. When we can have 
beauty and utility combined, why not? 
Why not have an eye out for the aesthet- 
ic side as well as for the fishful? (An 
old professor of rhetoric used to say that 
it is unforgivable to close a paragraph 
with a question, therefore I won’t.) 
The one fact the would-be successful 
bass fisherman should bear in mind is 
that the biting habits of Bronze-back 
vary with the water inhabited. I know 
of no fish that can be found in a greater 
variety of water, from swift, down- 
tumbling streams, to sluggish, herbose, 
bayous devoid of current and life. It is 
unnecessary to add that the fish of the 
former environment is more active and 
combative. Fishing for one fish is alto- 
gether a different proposition from fish- 
ing for the other. The bayou fish is apt 
to prefer live bait well down on the bot- 
tom, and must be given ample time to 
swallow the offering, otherwise he will 
not be hooked. I was watching a certain 
gentleman bait fishing for bass on one 
of the many bayous opening off the 
Mississippi River not long ago and at 
the first intimation of a nibble he would 
give his rod a tremendous jerk — I pre- 
sume he called it a strike — sufficient to 
break the neck of a bass, always sup- 
posing the fish has such a thing, but the 
fisherman got no fish. I tried to tell him 
he should give those leisurely old bronze 
plutocrats plenty of time to gormandize 
the frog, but he would not listen. His 
method might have been all right had he 
been using flies along the marge of some 
of the northern rivers hurrying to reach 
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