The sportsman's guide to the northern lakes : with hints on fishing, hunting, and trapping by Francis George

Author:Francis, George
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Tags: Fishing, Hunting, Trapping
Publisher: Chicago : G.F. Thomas
Published: 1885-03-25T05:00:00+00:00

from it. When the bass sto^DS he shifts the minnow in his mouth to get it head downward, proceeds to swallow it, and then moves away. At this moment the angler should give a quick jerk, not a "swishy" pull of his line out of the water, and he can safely bet that his bass is hooked.

In fishing with cray-fish the bait must not be kept suspended in the water like the minnow, because the cray-fish lives on the bottom, and is there sought by the bass. A great annoyance in fishing with cray-fish is their tendency to crawl under stones and logs. A good plan to prevent this, in a measure, is to cripple the cray fish by breaking off one of its claws A bass always swallows a cray-fish tail first. The hook should be placed in under the bottom of the tail, near the body, and brought through to the back. The same precaution is necessary when the bass strikes a cray-fish as is required with the minnow if the angler would be successful in hooking his fish. If fishing from a boat, the angler should throw his bait as far from him as possible, and the finer his tackle the more likely he is to secure a good catch. With angle-worm, grasshopper, or the other small baits, the bass in striking usually takes them entire into his mouth at once, but even with them it is safer to wait for the second moving away of the bass before the attempt to hook him is made. The black bass angler should remember, also, that from June until September the best fishing is in deep water or under the shadow of dams or falls. In September and October they live more in rapid deep currents, lying in eddies formed by bowlders, tree roots, or half submerged logs. In lakes they lie where the shores and bottoms are rocky, and among the weeds and lily-pads. In trolling with a spoon the latter should be small and attractive.

As a rule bass will not rise to the surface for the fly, and this is one reason that fly fishermen, unacquainted with the customs of the fish, and angling for it after the manner of casting for trout, have uniformly failed of success with bass, and voted bass fishing a humbug. The brightest fly should be the highest on the leader, and the flies should be sunk nearly to the bottom, and trolled upward. The bass invariably darts for the bright fly, but, seeing the others on his way up, takes one or the other of them. If it is one of the upper flies, the chances are that before the fish is landed, another bass will have taken one of the flies below it, and the angler will find his skill taxed to the utmost by two of the hardest fighting fish in American waters. If the first bass is hooked on the lower fly, however, there

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