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FOREST AND STREAM 
FISHING FOR BASS IN JUNE 
THE BAIT OR LURE NOW MAY NOT SERVE LATER IN 
THE SEASON - INCIDENTALLY, WHAT IS BEST NOW 
By Black Bass. 
An Angry 
Bull Moose 
Ferociously Charged 
Theodore Roosevelt 
near Quebec, last hunting season. 
How the Colonel killed the Bull 
in self defense, after having previously 
obtained his legal limit of Moose, 
is told by him in the February 1916 
“Scribner”, and by sworn affidavit 
at Quebec. 
Caribou and Deer 
are abundant in parts of Quebec 
Province, as well as moose and bear. 
The Best Trout Fishing 
in the world is in the Province of Quebec, 
and so are the best Guides both for fishing 
and hunting. Read Henry van Dyke’s de¬ 
scription of some of them in “Little Rivers.” 
Mining Rights 
are obtainable on most liberal conditions. 
Write for details. 
Would you like to own 
A Summer Camp 
for your family, by a forest-clad stream or 
mountain-surrounded lake ? 
You can build one of your own, by leas¬ 
ing a fishing and hunting territory from the 
Government of the Province, whether a 
resident of it or not, or by joining one of 
the many fish and game clubs. 
Write for an illustrated booklet on 
“The Fish and Game Clubs of Quebec”, 
which tells you all about them, and address 
all enquiries concerning fishing and hunting 
rights, fish and game laws, guides, etc., to 
HON. HONORE MERCIER, 
Minister of Colonization, Mines and Fisheries, 
QUEBEC, QUE. 
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T O a great many the middle of June of each 
year seems like a new lease on life. Very 
likely all winter long it has been thought 
of and anticipated, and more likely still the 
tackle has been in readiness at least two months 
ahead of time. 
Even so, the proper methods for early season 
fishing are not fully understood by most, if one 
can judge by the way it is gone about on the 
opening day. 
Some do not seem to realize that there are 
methods of catching bass during one month that 
will prove to be absolutely a failure during the 
month following, and in fact all the following 
season. 
Not meaning, of course, that just because it 
happens to be a different month that the fish 
have changed their methods of feeding, but if 
one stops to consider for a moment it will be 
realized that the difference in the temperature 
of the water is very apt to affect the appetite of 
a fish through the changes wrought by the rather 
cool month of June, the warmer waters of July 
and August and still again the cooler waters of 
September and October, to say nothing of No¬ 
vember. 
It is a well-known fact that black bass bite 
better in the cool months than they do in the 
warm ones, but just why no one has been able 
to figure out conclusively. At the same time very 
good guesses may be, and always have been, 
made, the general belief being that the fish are 
more voracious, or hungry in the cooler months 
through the fact that the cooler waters increase 
their activity the same as it does a human being 
upon land. This, to a certain extent, however, 
is a fallacy in so far as the cool waters affect 
their appetite. 
In the latter part of May and the first part of 
June they have been taking care of the spawning 
beds and have had no opportunity to go about in 
the search for the more delectable food, and as 
up to the spawning time they have had very lit¬ 
tle to eat in consequence of the long winter’s 
hibernation, they are on the watch at all times 
for food during the latter part of June, and while 
the waters are still somewhat cool. And the 
successful fisherman at this time is the one that 
selects (accidentally or otherwise) the bait that 
the fish are used to finding at this season, and 
serves it to them in the depths of water at which 
they expect it to be. 
This is the time when the still fisherman comes 
into his own and the bait caster loses out. 
Frogs are all herded up in the shallow, muddy 
pools where they have been spawning since early 
spring, and have not distributed themselves 
around the shores of the lake as they will later 
on; minnows and “saw-bellies” have not as yet 
become used to the warmer waters of the sur¬ 
face and the sandy bars, as they will about the 
first of July, and the bass, when they make a 
circle of the shallow water along shore and find 
nothing but worms with which to appease their 
voracious appetites, are all very apt to swim back 
to deep water and stay there until it warms up 
considerably. 
Under these circumstances then it is a wise 
fisherman that goes out on Friday night with a 
lantern and secures a pail full of lively night 
crawlers in preparation for Saturday afternoon 
and Sunday. 
To get the largest amount of enjoyment from 
this style of fishing the following outfit might 
be used: 
A ten foot fly rod, steel if preferred, twenty- 
five yards of enameled line, “set” on the reel 
with a number of yards of last year’s line used 
as a “core.” A single action reel with a deep 
and narrow barrel and with a decided “click” to 
it. A thin leader of four or five feet of slightly 
more strength than the line, and some medium 
sized sproat hooks. Incidentally no sinkers are 
required. 
At this time of year an assortment of baits is 
not needed, the night crawlers will prove to be 
enough. Anchor ropes and anchors are also 
superfluous, as this is not to be a “still” fishing 
trip, but a sort of modification of trolling. 
If it be a windy day, as is very apt to be the 
case thus early in the season, select a spot slightly 
protected from the wind by a headland and 
where the wind has a back draft to it, making 
the boat drift this way and that with no decided 
direction, and where it will move slowly. 
Take two lively worms (dead ones will be of 
no use) and impale just their heads on the hook, 
and before throwing them overboard see that 
they are acting as any indignant worm should, 
coiling around the hook in lively fashion. 
Drop them over and row ahead a few strokes, 
