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once in a while, in this one lake, are 
they big enough to keep. 
8. And here is an idea, perhaps, that 
some other bass fishermen can use— 
we have found a mighty effective way 
to use a minnow with a casting rod, 
which has appeared to be nea to a lot 
of fellows I’ve told about it. We rig 
with a blank practice plug about three 
or four feet from the end of the line, 
the minnow at the end. Thus we pro- 
vide a weight that will put the minnow 
where we want it and which will also 
hold the minnow up out of the weedy 
bottom. Having cast, we allow the min- 
now to swim about for a bit, then 
pull in a few feet cf line. The blank 
plug simulates a swimming fish and 
apparently helps to get attention. On 
a few occasions, a bass has hit the 
wooden plug. But most often, after 
the minnow has dangled there a while, 
the plug begins to wobble a bit, and we 
know that the minnow is making an 
heroic effort to escape from an ap- 
proaching bass—and in another mo- 
ment, down goes the plug and the fun 
has started. 
HAVE written two or three of the 
makers of plugs about this, suggest- 
ing that they make a blank that will 
act like the regulation imitation min- 
now in the water and try to popularize 
this method of fishing, for it calls for 
almost constant casting, affords the 
fisherman an opportunity to use his 
skill in putting his plug at just the 
desired spot, is not harder on the min- 
now than other methods—and has, time 
after time, got us fish when others were 
failing in the same water. 
So here I am—fat, bald and with a 
generous sprinkling of gray in the re- 
maining locks—fishing with a bobber as 
in those halcyon days of long ago when 
I fished for silver-sides, as we called 
them, in the little branch down back of 
the school house! A bobber!—what do 
you know about that? 
It Is Not All of Fishing to 
Fish 
(Continued from page 325) 
finesse when fished for intelligently with 
a rod of three or four ounces. One of 
his favorite and skillful tricks is to 
curve his body into a U-shape on a 
taut line in order to offer a greater re- 
sistance. The rock bass is common to 
most of the lakelets of the central and 
southern portions of the state. 
HE white bass is a vigorous game- 
fish and an excellent food fish as 
well. It is variously known as white 
lake bass, fresh water striped bass, as 
it belongs to the same genus as the 
real striped bass or rockfish of the 
east Atlantic coast, which it resembles 
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only in the dark stripes along its sides. 
It is usually a foot in length and a 
pound in weight, but occasionally, in 
suitable waters, it reaches two or three 
pounds. It frequents waters of mod- 
erate depth and is abundant in the 
Great Lake region, and in Wisconsin is 
common in Green Bay and Winnebago 
Lake. It is a beautiful typical fish, 
silvery and shapely with several dark, 
parallel stripes along its sides. It rises 
well to the artificial fly, but cannot re- 
sist such natural bait as small minnows, 
grubs, and even a fat wriggling earth- 
worm. Black bass tackle answers very 
well for white bass. Artificial flies 
should be small and somber in color, 
grays and browns, as it is clear water 
fishing in lakes. Fly-fishing is more 
successful when the fish are in com- 
paratively shallow water near tribu- 
taries and gravelly shoals or weed 
patches. 
The pike-perch is another good game- 
fish of the Badger State and is rather 
common in Wisconsin and Rock rivers, 
but more plentiful and of larger size 
in Winnebago Lake and the lakes in 
the vicinity of Eagle Waters. It is 
somewhat rare in the southern part of 
the state, and in the many lakelets of 
Waukesha county I have met it only in 
Pewaukee Lake. It is usually found in 
rocky situations. 
ie is not only a fine food-fish but a 
good game-fish of much merit for the 
angler with natural bait, and at times it 
responds to the artificial fly and other 
artificial lures, especially when it 
weighs five pounds or more. It is a 
hard pulling fish when hooked and will 
test the strength of a light rod. Hav- 
ing a large and prominent eye it is 
somewhat nocturnal in habit, and may 
be fished for at night with success 
wherever rocks abound. 
The great northern pike is abundant 
all over the state, and in large waters 
grows to a weight of twenty pounds or 
more. When of good size it exhibits 
considerable gameness, and in its vio- 
lent straight and zigzag rushes is very 
trying to a light rod. Occasionally it 
takes an artificial fly of brilliant colors. 
When I devised my Polka fly, I was try- 
ing it for the first time, it was taken 
by an eight-pound pike. When fishing 
for black bass with fly or other arti- 
ficial lure I have often taken pike of ten 
or more pounds. In the many lakes of 
Wisconsin it is caught through the ice 
in large numbers, and with the ‘yellow 
perch furnishes winter svort for those 
who like it. 
ISCONSIN has always _ safe- 
guarded ,her fish resources, and 
has always been in the fore front for 
the protection and increase of food-fish 
and game-fish. She has been fortunate 
in always possessing an intelligent and 

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