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Show -Angling' 1 Angles, llif bq old tii As Old Hi says in the booklet, "Fishing For the Millions," we owe a lot to pan fish. They give us plenty of fun and sport when the game fish may be off their feed, and let us spend many pleasant pleas-ant hours in company with congenial con-genial friends. Pan fish seem to have everything every-thing in their favor. They cover the country in a variety of species, spec-ies, are swell tasting when properly prop-erly cooked, fight nimbly in cool and clean waters, live close to our homes, are ready biters, will nip at artificial flies and spinners in many cases, and thrive abundantly. abun-dantly. You are seated in a boat anchored an-chored over a shallow gravelly bottom holding a 9-foot "President" "Presi-dent" tonkin barnbo live bait rod, with a "Top Flight" level wind reel filled with Old Hi's favorite 9 pound test nylon line, small hook, and a soft-shelled crawfish or bass bug for bait. Suddenly there comes a gentle stirring of your plastic float, and a moment later it slips from view as sizable sunfish grabs the bait and heaijs for a weedy refuge. With a quick lift of the rod tip you tighten the line and imbed the hook. Then, for a short interval, you play a vigorous scrapper until he can be brought to the gunwhale and lifted aboard in the net. You have a 10-inch gleaming bluegill weighing about a pound, one of the most favored of all pan fish. His kinsmen include such notables as the black bass. It's no wonder, then, that he's a highly sportive rogue. In fact, you can have a great deal of fun with bluegills as well as with yellow perch and rock bass on a light 2-piece "Wodsman" tubular glass fly rod, or on one of the new 2-piece "Golden Rod" tubular tub-ular glass spinning rods. For something different in sport, take this spinning rod and cast out a weighted streamer fly, |