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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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elf of the offendinghook with his hard bony tongue. In the whole domain of nature the lives andhabits of fish are least known, because least seen.In captivity their movements are entirely dif-ferent from those of the wild state, so that it is topractical anglers more than to scientific men thatwe look for the information of this chapter. Anumber of game-fish leap in play, or for theirfood. Salmon are constantly seen making a bow-like curve in the air two feet from the water andthen slipping back with barely a splash. I haveseen brook-trout (fontinalis) leap in a like manner,sometimes only half out of the water for a fly,then again, seemingly in pure wanton joyous-ness, though I have very rarely had a brook-troutleap out after being hooked. It will dash hitherand thither, but always under and low down, inshort turns and quick darts. Bass break watermore often than trout; in fact, it is rare whenthey do not. Once being aware of restraint, theyleap one to nine times before being subdued.
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»- C3 S W i/^ o o ■tJ c -^ rt 2 ■4-> ^ < GAME-FISH TIL\T LEAP ABOVE THE SURFACE 105 On quiet evenings we observe bass (where theyare plentiful) rising clear from the placid watersurface, both in play and when trying to catchinsects—large moths, and even birds on the wing.It is very different with the muskellunge, whosefood lies entirely below the surface, and his leapis of bull-like ferocity and fierce anger at theunusual restraint of the line. When he leaps itis like slipping out and sliding along like an arrowwhich has touched the water and is gliding abovethe surface. His long heavy body prevents hismaking a graceful curve like that of the salmon,whose leap is sidewise, and he makes an uprightmovement instead. In nearly all cases it is fishwho feed on or near the surface that make leapsfrom the water after being hooked, and all havea strikingly different method of doing it. Thebass and ouananiche are very similar in their wayof resisting capture. They shoot straight ou

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