Show ADVICE FOB ANGLERS Importance of ot Being Noiseless and of Avoiding Shining Apparatus New York Sun The angler of experience does not need to have another hammer into him hint the truth that the quieter he is the themore themore I Imore more he keeps himself concealed the less conspicuous he makes himself in short hort the more snore flab fish he will take That truth has been beaten Into nto him by countless Incidents of the stream tream and lake The angler of or inexperience however always fails to recognize the import importance Importance Importance ance of effacing himself and will con continue continue continue to o wonder years Jears after why It is that the other fellow gets the trout or bass bassIn bassIn bassS S In whipping a a stream for trout go going ing down stream the man with the therod I Irod Irod rod should lift his feet only when he heis heis heS S is obliged to They The should be slid sUd along just above the bottom as noise noiselessly noiselessly lessly leanly surely and gently as possible The object t of this is to avoid sending down sand in solution or starting small rolling roiling stones which Infallibly notify the trout below that something un unfriendly unfriendly friendly is coming down S It is well too for the man to fish with the sun in his front as his long Ions shadow on the water will scare a good many more fish than it will allure In approaching a pool from the bank care should be taken not to show above aboe Its Us rim at alL If the angler knows where It Is and how bow it is shaped he should cast at it before beCore he sees It it Thus of bf a stream is worth wortha a good deaL deaLIn In i boat fishing for bass the utmost quiet should be observed Water is an excellent conductor of sound and any unusual motion in the boat Is com corn communicated cornS to the fluid beneath S In casting the elbow should be against the side and almost the whole of the force imparted to the bait should come from the forearm and wrist The Theman Theman man n who throws his hands out far and anti with the rod much as if he be were play playIng lag Ing at Shortstop and had to get a ball down to first base to beat batt a u runner out by bye a foot foot will be seen by b bass fifty yards ards away and anti they will wIn have none o of him Similarly they will ill have hae none of ni the chap bap h who always strikes his rod man han handie bane manie die ie e against the boats SIde aWe ide or sings Or r swears or stamps on the bottom or runs the tip of the rod through the water A dark line Is better than a light line Jine in in inmost most waters aters the object of all aU ang nag ing being to persuade the tine fish that the thing It sees is good to eat and has no string tied to it IL A dark rod is 15 bet beter ter er than a rod There Is on one bait rod now on the market made of or metal hand handsome handsome some durable springy and attractive but In the sunlight it flashes like Uke a n sword word and the gleam of It across a aake alake alake lake ake is visible half a mite mile away It stands to reason that so far as noti the bass is ls concerned conce ed the man would as well take a hand mirror and flash Its reflection up and across the theS S water The bass unable to see a rod above a lake would have Its eyes located in its belly Not any of ot the wood rods have this defect but a lot of anglers foolishly weight them with metal trimmings which have as bad an effect The nearer the joints of or a rod and the reel itself comes to dullness the more kill killIns tag Ins that rod will wilt be For this reason the hard rubber reel reels is s to be commended above the and an It will not rust though it is not so 80 strong In the time to come rods and anti reels will wUl be made or covered with some sort of composition which has no power of reflection Thousands of fish are lost every ever year because of ot shining apparatus Men go upon the lakes day after day and catch nothing or at last only a miserable S two or three though ey fish hard and used all aU approved f ms of baits If one of them should try keeping quiet and using a outfit he would find his score much bettered |