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came down, with a quick side thrust he 
rammed his horn in behind her short ribs 
clear to the heart. 
The bear let go her hold and fell over 
on her side, dying in less than a minute. 
The bull was all right, with the exception 
of the lost beefsteak and the bite on his 
neck, and just as mad as ever, he pawed 
the dirt and bellowed for more bear. 
“Another surprise,” El Burrero said; 
“who would ever think a bull could kill a 
bear in three minutes?” 
The bear, though very thin from raising 
a large family, weighed 1,100 pounds; fat, 
would have easily weighed 1,500 pounds or 
more. I can’t remember what became of 
the cubs, but they were sold to a man 
called Round House George, who kept a 
few animals and sort of pleasure garden, 
on a small scale in Los Angeles. 
Hancock M. Johnston. 
Texas Bass 
Fishing 
Editor Forest and Stream : 
I have just finished reading an article by 
Louis Rhead in your July number and as 
he invites comment I want to give a few 
“experiences” covering several of the points 
he raises. Before beginning, I want to say 
my experience is entirely with large mouth 
southern bass and not the small mouth 
northern brother—hence doubtless may 
arise some of my conclusions. 
I have fished principally in Florida and 
Texas—both streams and lakes, and by 
every means known to southern sportsmen; 
but of late I have devoted most of my time 
to the use of so-called “Plugs”—though the 
term is unused here—and flies. My con¬ 
clusions have been that the depth of the 
water and size of the fish sought are the 
chief controlling factors in selecting casting 
baits—with, of course, the stillness, clear¬ 
ness and time of day as decided modifying 
elements. 
A “still” plug has time and again caught 
bass for me and last February I got a 
strike while at rest, on a floater, 3 treble 
hooks, and the bass took the entire plug 4 
inches long inside his mouth, the tail treble 
being in his throat and several of the side 
hooks in his jaws. It is true he was a 
large fish, 6 lbs. exactly, and the floater 
had just been permitted to come to rest, 
but other instances with smaller fish are 
numerous. 
The direction from which a fish strikes 
will vary naturally as he must come from 
where he is to where the bait is and I have 
had hundreds of strikes in water 25 to 40 
feet deep, where the bass came nearly 
straight up and I saw him 15 feet before 
he arrived. Such strikes invariably turn 
and go down as straight as they came up 
and more will be missed than side strikes, 
because most plugs have no hooks beneath. 
Speaking of bass not being “hogs,” I 
have caught many that contained literal 
streaks of fat interspersed with streaks of 
lean in conventional pork fashion and with 
sufficient free fat inside to cook the fish 
in, if it were not objectionable in flavor 
for the purpose. I have caught bass on 
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