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Title: Fisherman's lures and game-fish food : with colored pictures from life of various creatures fish eat and new improved artificial imitation floating nature lures and chart-plans to show the haunts where fish feed on them in lake and stream
Year: 1920 (1920s)
Authors: Rhead, Louis, 1857-1926
Subjects: Fishes Fishing
Publisher: New York : C. Scribner's Sons
Contributing Library: Gerstein - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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ity is more prolonged. In such waters theybecome more adroit and skilful in ejecting thehook, at the same time in such situations theyare more bold and aggressive, taking the baitor fly at top speed, just as they doubtless do fortheir natural food. I have witnessed trout dartupward to my minnow or fly, miss it, then turn-ing down-stream, rushing along after it like aflash, taking the lure with a smash most admir-able to behold. No need of a strike of the wrist^no fear of their being unhooked; they take thelure as if it were their natural food, without fearor scruple. I have also seen a small-mouth bass of good sizein its lair of deep, though moving water, slylywatch a kicking crawfish pass along overhead,then in a leisurely way follow after, viev/ it afew seconds, and return to its lair. Again it wouldswim down-stream, at a faster pace to reach thecrawfish just before it began to touch bottom,when it would mouth but not swallow it, slowlymoving to its accustomed abode in such an easy-
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Sraall-mouth black bassMicropterus Dolomien HOW DIFFERENT FOODS AFFECT GAME-FISHES Gl going way as to make me exclaim: Wake up, oldchap, and stir around, so that I can strike withgood effect. In the glassy water the whole pro-ceedings were in full view. I was too wise to strikebefore the bait was properly pouched, but whenit is and the strike done, the bass instantly showsevidence of the fighter beyond compare he surelyis. Such observations give an opportunity to seeexactly how food is taken in the natural way wherethere is plenty of it, in fairly deep pools severalhundred feet in extent. In such places bass donthunt; they simply take in from the abundantsupply that surrounds them. I have on severaloccasions taken twelve or more nice bass fromthis place within a radius of twenty feet. Theactive rushes, and leaps above the surface, seemto have no effect to frighten the other fish, whowould leave their particular abode beside a bigboulder and in the same deliberate manner calmlytake the

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