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covered with perspiration. Then I be¬ 
gan wondering how. much he weighed. 
Afterwards the scales showed him to be 
nine pounds and two ounces. 
Content to rest on my laurels for the 
day, I now took the paddle and let Wal¬ 
ter try his hand with the casting outfit. 
[ It was a new business to him and many 
times he endangered his safety as well 
as our own by the close swish of a bunch 
of sharp hooks on the Dowagiac as he 
endeavored to get the bait out. After 
patiently untangling a few “birdnests” in 
the line, he finally got out a good cast. 
A fair-sized bass hit the bait, and after 
“the smoke had cleared away” there was 
one more convert to “them new-fangled 
fishin’ poles,” as he called our tackle. 
As we sat about the camp fire that 
evening, our pipes going, and listened to 
the tales of adventure from Walter, who 
had fished and hunted through all of this 
country, I could not help but feel how 
close we were, after all, despite the de- - 
velopment of our present-day civiliza¬ 
tion, to the life of our forefathers who 
had lived in daily contact with the wild 
affairs of Nature. I realized the need 
of the present generation for the good 
that could be derived from a closer 
union with Nature- and her manifold 
manifestations. To this end I then and 
there resolved to do all I could from 
then on to encourage and foster the 
spirit of sportsmanship in our coming 
generation. 
STUDIES IN TROUT 
PSYCHOLOGY 
(Continued from page 117) 
it can discriminate between the natural 
and the artificial. At one time I was 
fishing for bass in a small river. I cast 
the fly, a large Brown Hackle, near a 
log. At once a fair-sized bass rose and 
seized it as I looked on. A sudden curi¬ 
osity led me to delay the strike to see 
what would happen. The fish deliberate¬ 
ly chewed the artificial two or three 
j times and then blew it out of its mouth, 
returning to its place under the log. 
Several casts made in the same spot got 
no rises, but a cast down and across the 
stream at once got a rise from another 
fish, which was hooked, played and 
creeled. Touch or taste, or both, would 
seem to be the only explanation. 
> Grasshoppers and crickets were a 
very acceptable diet to my larger trout. 
1 he smaller fish could do little with the 
hard forward parts, but the soft ab¬ 
domen, if broken off and thrown into the 
water, was taken and swallowed. The 
natural insect has long been known to 
be a deadly bait, and from my own ex¬ 
perience artificials tied in the proper 
manner are just about as taking as the 
j natural, if properly manipulated. 
One trout would occasionally take a 
small, light-green fly with gauzy wings 
and golden eyes. However, the greater 
number of insects of this species were 
not noticed when placed on the water, 
not even being pulled under and 
drowned. 
When several insects of different 
species were on the water at the same 
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