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August, 1919 
turn next. I rowed over to a bunch of 
stumps and snags and held the boat in 
position while she did the casting. About 
the second try, something attached it- 
self to her lure. From the rumpus it 
kicked up, I decided that it was a bass 
worth getting^ onto the stringer. Using 
our regular tactics as well as keeping 
the boat away from the stumps, we soon 
had our bass on the scales. Three pounds 
and a half, good full weight. And five 
minutes later, Jimmie had her hands 
full again. Three pounds and ten ounces 
this time. It was some fishing for our 
neighborhood. Then I struck one that 
matched my other one. Just two and 
three-quarter pounds. And the next 
thing that we did was to quit. 
I T is up to you now to get busy and 
learn the most fascinating way there 
is to capture game fish. First learn 
to cast. Then don’t try to cast too 
far. When on a lake or stream, keep 
casting, for you never get a fish with 
the lure in the boat. Don’t keep chang- 
ing baits, for this trick wastes a lot of 
good time. If the water you are fishing 
in contains rocks, stumps lily pads, etc., 
around these places look for your strikes, 
especially during the middle of the day 
when the fish as a rule are loafing. 
Early in the morning or in the evening, 
the bass will run into the open water 
close up to shore where the water is 
very shallow. That reminds me of a 
sight I witnessed this summer. 
I heard a splash and saw w'here a big 
bass had just jumped for something right 
up at the edge of the shore. While I had 
my eyes on the spot, a little sand-piper 
came teetering along. He stopped and 
stepped to the edge of the water and that 
bass came right out after him and almost 
landed high and dry. The bird escaped 
and the bass scooted off into deep water. 
Just after we made the trip related 
above, a sportsman from New York City 
came to my place and I invited him to 
go along. His casting was far from 
being passable, but I kept worrying him 
and insisting that he cast where the bass 
ought to be. 
When that afternoon closed, we had 
five bass that weighed: 2% lbs., 3 lbs., 
3% lbs. and 4 lbs., 10 ounces. The 
weights are actual, not guessed at. Fur- 
thermore, plenty of people saw- the fish. 
I took lots of pains to see that they did. 
THE SECRET OF 
ALLIGATOR BAY 
(continued from page 424) 
always remain a mystery. They never 
talked and they were never asked a ques- 
tion. But it is a land of mingled romance 
and of crime. 
From such incontrovertible evidence as 
was reproduced in the previous chapter 
it may be seen that the authorities are 
nowf at work in Florida. The stolid in- 
termediary of the plume traffic — the In- 
dian, who is stupid when asked ques- 
tions, has been put behind prison bars. 
Others, further up in the scale, have also 
been apprehended. There are forces in 
action. Whether they will act speedily 
enough to save the last of the Florida 
egrets is a question. We hope so. 
(the end.) 
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