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Show ANGLING ANGLES By Old Hi You'll be assured of some great sport in taking black bass with 'the fly rod if you cast in very early morning or late evening, along the lily pad clusters, stumps and weedy areas of lake or river. The fish are more active then, and feed near the surface affording plenty of chances to creel your share. Various types of lures are effective ef-fective under the conditions. You can try feather-minnows, bass bug floats, hair bugs, artificial frogs or mice, feathered spinners, ,tiny plugs, small nickel spoons, midget baswigglers, Colorado spinners, spin-ners, plan spinner with pork rind strip, light June bug spinner, streamer flies and regular bass flies in popular patterns. Take your pick! I've got a feather-minnow in my tackle box that has a gray body and yellow feathers covering a 10 hook, and this lure has taken many an excellent smallmouth. Naturally it's a favorite of mine, but so is the Yellow Sally fly and spinner, the June, bug and the Red Ibis bass fly. These have all been consistant bass takers along with the plainer spinner and pork rind. If the bass are working along near bottom in shallow water, here is an angle that will often put fish in your net. Take a six-foot level nylon leader lea-der with one dropper loop and attach at-tach a Silver Doctor or Red Ibis fly to the dropper loop, and 'a yellow yel-low Sally fly to the end loop. Add a light split-shot sinker . . . just enough to carry the flies close to the bottom . . . then troll this rig very slowly, and in a jerky manner. man-ner. You'd be surprised how this trick appeals to otherwise indolent bass. Another stunt . . . when the fish are near the surface ... is to take a cigar wrapper and tie a knot in the center with ends flaring flar-ing out like wings, insert the shank of a hook through the knot, and cast this odd looking object onto the water. This has worked well in the St. Lawrence river among the Thousand Islands. A good plastic impregnated genuine tonkin cane fly rod nine feet in length, of "bass action," will be needed for best results. This would weigh five and one half ounces and meet general conditions. condi-tions. With it you would want an automatic fly reel capable of holding hol-ding 50 yards of size F level fly line. A six-foot nylon leader and lures as suggested, would complete com-plete the outfit. In Old Hi's booklet. Fishing for the Millions," it is pointed out that ordinarily a short line should be used in fly rod casting so as to play and hook th bass more opportunely, op-portunely, but that on bright days you must try longer casts. A free copy of this booklet may be secured se-cured by adressing your request to me in care of this newspaper. |