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It will identify you. 
casting around the small keys out in 
the gulf gave good results, fished in 
the same way. 
After all is said, however, there is 
no fishing in the South that equals 
the black bass for real sport, and the 
test of skill between a big bass and 
the fisherman is a battle royal, which 
the red fish do not give, as not break- 
ing water his fight depends more on 
real strength than on the finer arts of 
war that the black bass will have fre- 
quent recourse to. Again, the mouth 
of the red fish is very tough and is 
never torn by the hook, and when once 
well hooked, only escapes by straight- 
ening the hook, or breaking it, or by 
parting the line. This, however, 
diversifies our fishing, and I am of the 
opinion that the best time for red fish 
is the poorer season for bass in our 
little river. 
Before leaving the subject of our 
sports, I must mention that there are 
many ducks on this river and we spend 
few days without good bags being 
made. We ate few evening meals that 
did not partially consist of roasted 
duck. 
While I am not advertising any 
special bait, yet as I have attempted 
to give in some detail the technical 
method we found best, it is perhaps 
not out of order to mention that the 
lure we used was the “Oriental Wig- 
gler” and the hook that proved most 
effective was a 6/0 hook. The best 
hook we found, and we tried many, 
was the Cincinnati Bass, but as the 
length of hook most effective on this 
lure is that of a length 5/0. This was 
‘overcome by heating the 6/0 in a 
Sterno burner and with round nose 
forceps to turn another eye in the 
hook, shortening it one-half inch, which 
makes it the length of the 5/0 and at 
the same time taking out the cast off 
in the hook. As I have said, the 
mouth of the red fish is very tough 
and if the hook is of heavy wire it is 
very hard to set the hook with a light 
six ounce six foot rod and yet, if the 
hook is of too light wire, the fish, in 
his effort to rake it out on the rocks 
on the bottom, will succeed either in 
breaking or straightening it out. It 
is impossible to control the fish so as 
to prevent his gaining the bottom with 
the light tackle, and he really does 
pretty much as he pleases with his 
end of the line. 
1 am waiting patiently for next 
December to arrive and I am planning 
and preparing already for the work. 
Since reaching home I find with the 
Bunsen burner and improved tools I 
can turn hooks as if done at the 
factory and have this phase of the 
work prepared for the coming season. 
Like all enthusiastic fishermen, 1 
have .been for several years working 
on special designs in buck-tail flies of 
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