THE 
SUSQUEHANNA 
BAIT 
SUGGESTIONS 
FROM 
ALONG 
B. CHAMPLAIN 
our immediate 
vicinity are as fully 
aware of our pres¬ 
ence as we are of 
theirs, which ac¬ 
counts largely for a 
poor catch. To 
match their cunning 
we must do our best 
to imitate natural 
conditions. 
Fish generally are 
very playful; purely n 
predacious kinds, 
such as pike, pick¬ 
erel, pike-perch, and 
sometimes bass, are 
often in the humor 
to attack and kill 
your bait just for 
sport, or possibly 
for the mere love of 
destruction, or of 
investigation. An 
excellent method for 
catching these ma¬ 
rauders is to run 
the hook through the 
mouth of your chub 
or minnow, and out 
at the gills—without 
hurting it; then 
down the side and 
hook it in the tail 
with a good portion 
of the hook exposed. 
You are safe in pull¬ 
ing on the first run, 
and, nine times out 
of ten, will hook 
your fish. 
The scent of cer¬ 
tain kinds of raw 
flesh has consider¬ 
able attraction to 
bass and other fish, 
and in addition to 
turning a hellgram- 
mite inside out 
on the hook, as de¬ 
scribed in the June 
number, the follow¬ 
ing may prove of interest. Mr. A. B. 
Landis, a veteran angler of Harrisbug, 
Pennsylvania, has a method of prepar¬ 
ing and hooking a shelled crayfish that 
has netted him more bass than any 
other bait. It is prepared in the fol¬ 
lowing manner: Lay your crayfish on 
its back, remove the pinchers, and four 
of the legs, leaving two legs on each 
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HBLLGRAMM1TE PHOTOS. ADULT MALE, SPREAD. EGG MASS. LARVAL STAGE 
LARVA. ADULT MALE. ADULT FEMALE 
We have learned by experience that 
fish undoubtedly possess a sense of 
fear, of memory, of cunning, and of 
pleasure. We dare not let our shadow 
pass over a resting game fish in a 
clear stream, or, like a flash of light, 
it has disappeared. We catch our 
“half-dozen” after a day’s fishing in a 
stream that we know contains hun¬ 
dreds of fish. The majority of those in 
