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TIE ON A NEW 
FLAT SIDE CHUB 
No. 1500 
Price, $1.00 
Weight, nearly %-oz. Length, 3% 
in. Color a beautiful blend of 
dark green, silver and red in scale 
finish. New loose vibration spin¬ 
ners. Or a 
Baby Flat Side Chub, 
with reversible double hooks. 
Weight, about %-oz. Length, 2% 
in. No. 1600. 
Price, 95c. 
If the casting will be along the shore or 
over the weeds, the bass will instantly 
take a lure which they believe to be a 
minnow in trouble and therefore easy to 
catch. No other lure so well represents 
an injured minnow. Cast this beautiful 
Flat Side Chub, give some short, slow 
jerks and if there is a bass around 
Biff-Bang—and the fight is on. They 
can’t resist it. 
Tie on 
The New Polly Wiggle 
Pork Rind Lure 
No. i7oo. Price $1.00 
Length of body, 1 % in. Weight, 
over % -° z - 
No. 1701—White with Red Head 
If you are going to cast in weedy places, 
among the pads and surface weeds, turn 
over the piece in the mouth of the 
Polly Wiggle, make your cast, start the 
lure at once and bring it in slowly and 
the big old bass or pick, who is out 
looking for a nice juicy meal will hit and 
hit hard, this wiggling life-like Polly 
Wiggle. It gets the big ones in the bad 
places. If the day is hot and the fish 
down deep—with the mouthpiece pointed 
down, make the cast, reel rather fast 
and be ready for the strike. In no other 
pork rind lure can you get both the 
surface and deep bait; in no other can 
' you get such a fine side wiggle to the 
rind. Be sure to have one to tie to on 
the opening day so you can Catch More 
Fish. 
No casting outfit is com¬ 
plete without the 
Famous Pikie Minnow 
Length, 4 1 / 2 in. 
Weight, %-oz. 
Price $1.00 
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THE CREEK CHUB BAIT CO. 
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culled from between the covers of fish¬ 
ing hooks. A good many years of con¬ 
stant fishing have proved most of the 
advice to be good, if used at the right 
time, and plentifully supplemented with 
a great deal of “experience." The be¬ 
ginner, lacking a personal instructor, 
can do no better than to follow what he 
has read, striving constantly to learn by 
experience. And so I say that the ques¬ 
tion of whether to fish upstream or 
down is to be decided on the water 
rather than by belonging to one “school" 
or the other. On large waters, or on 
very fast ones, the wet fly can be fished 
with the current to advantage. The 
flies should be cast across the stream, 
and allowed to sweep down with the 
current until they reach a point directly 
below the angler. Where the water is 
very fast, flowing between narrow banks, 
it becomes necessary to cast almost 
straight downstream; the fly must be 
worked back and forth across the cur¬ 
rent in this situation. A trout will take 
a wet fly that is moving with or across 
the current much more readily than one 
which is being pulled up against the 
water. In small streams, plentifully sup¬ 
plied with quiet stretches and pools, one 
will generally do better by fishing up¬ 
stream—supposing that the sun is in 
such a position that the angler will not 
throw shadows ahead of him. 
Unlike the dry fly, the wet variety may 
be given a certain amount of motion by 
the angler; sometimes the trout seem to 
prefer a lively fly that is twisted along 
by slightlv shaking the rod, while at 
others they want a fly that glides along 
smoothly. They almost always rise bet¬ 
ter to a wet fly that is just under the 
surface. The dropper fly may be danced 
along over the surface—if the angler s 
skill permits the proper execution of 
this pretty maneuver. Under all cir¬ 
cumstances trout insist that the flies he 
dropped as light as thistle-down on the 
water; that they be undisturbed by care¬ 
less wading, shadows, and ripples 
caused by the angler’s movements. 
I do not wish to leave the impression 
that wet fly fishing is always the most 
difficult or the most desirable. There 
are proper times and conditions for the 
dry fly, and an angler who persisted in 
the use of the wet under such circum¬ 
stances would merely prove that he still 
had a lot to learn. The best informa¬ 
tion available as to when to use one 
and the other is always given by the 
trout themselves; should your judgment 
of the situation indicate a dry fly, try 
it. and see whether the fish coincide 
with your views. If they don t, give 
them a wet fly. I presume that you will 
be skillful enough to offer both va¬ 
rieties in a versatile manner, not being- 
content to acknowledge failure with 
either until your whole bag of tricks has 
been exhausted. Because the trout will 
not rise to a wet. fly cast toward the left 
bank does not mean that they will refuse 
one cast toward the right. Such seem¬ 
ingly trivial matters sometimes make the 
difference between a heavy creel and a 
light one. In searching for the proper 
offering make use of every size of fly 
you carry; this will often have more 
bearing on the matter than the color of 
the fly. And do not overlook the fact 
that various patterns have different 
shapes. On the whole I do not recom¬ 
mend a constant change of flies; the 
fault is more likely to lie in the manner- 
of presenting them. If I had to choose 
between having one fly or one method 
of presentation, I would not hesitate for 
an instant to choose the one fly with 
freedom to put it over the trout in as 
many ways as I cared to. 
As a last word: most of us have a 
peculiar style of fishing of our own, and 
when we fail to catch fish we become 
upset. This is not a theory, but an ac¬ 
tual fact. There is nothing more disas¬ 
trous to a happy day on the stream than 
to find that we have lost confidence in 
our ability to take fish. Every sports¬ 
man, whether he be angler or shooter,> 
has experienced those miserable days 
which either opened with missing two 
or three rises, or missing a few easy 
shots; we vividly recall how we lost 
more and more control of ourselves 
until we were actually glad to put up 
our rod or gun at the end of the day. 
I, for one, have experienced this un¬ 
happy feeling enough times, so that I 
am determined to reduce the chances of 
its occurence as much as I can. For 
the angler, safety lies in refusing to be¬ 
come wedded to a particular style of 
fishing, in becoming proficient with wet 
or dry fly, in being equally at home 
fishing up or down stream, and having 
enough control of his nerves so that he 
may strike early or late at will, sharply 
or by merely tightening up his line. In 
other words, study to become a “Corn- 
pleat Angler.” 
BIG-MOUTH BASS IN 
FLORIDA 
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of the fish. Handling him carefully, I 
got him up to the boat, when he took one 
look and disappeared only to come up 
fighting strong on the other side. Out 
he went again, taking line like a run¬ 
away kite. I got him stopped again 
when he began to sulk. Tugging on him 
gently, he started out with another mad 
rush straight for the boat and under it 
again. You may believe me, I had my 
hands full reeling in and getting the line 
around in under the bow of the boat. 
Playing him steadily on this side, I soon 
had him fagged out and he came up to 
the surface on his side. I reached care¬ 
fully over, taking no chances on a land¬ 
ing net, hooked my fingers into his 
mouth and gills and lifted him into the 
boat. 
I think we all heaved a sigh of relief 
when I actually had him safely in the 
boat. Paul sat transfixed with wonder 
and open-mouthed awe. He reluctantly 
admitted it was some fish. Walter was 
not unduly ruffled, although he wanted 
to know if I believed him now about 
his tale of a duck-eating bass. 
The thirty minutes oi so I spent in 
playing the bass seemed to me to have 
been but a few moments, and I was 
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