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Show PfBy JfM RHODY Carp Can Be Fun 1 Carp fishing, on light tackle, can .be an exciting pastime which sportsmen's sports-men's groups and individual an-Jglers an-Jglers would do well to include in itheir plans for the 1951 season, says !the Ontario Department of Lands and Forests. At least two southern Ontario .clubs, at Brantford and Port Perry, jhave done such a good job in getting get-ting members interested in angling ;for the fish that each spring they Jhold "derbies" in which prizes are igiven for the most carp and the largest taken. I Those who have fished carp say (that some of them and they grow !big "will battle like a muskie," if jthey are taken on a casting rod and light line. "Even a 4-pounder," jwrites one carp-fishing addict, "can battle for 20 minutes and still have ilots of pep left." For those who would like to take up this carp-angling sport, and thereby help out the game fish, one jof the Port Perry group passes ,along the following technique: I "Use a casting rod and reel; a iline of 14 to 20 pound test and a No. 4 or No. 6 hook with a single gut. A double-gutted hook allows the -carp to feel that it has something in its mouth other than food and it will usually spit it out. "Fish on the bottom. When the carp takes hold of the bait allow it to run well as one would do in minnow min-now fishing for pike. This allows the carp to swallow the bait, then, as the hook is set the battle is on . . . believe me they can really put up a light." Bait, this same angler explains, Is a mixture of corn-meal, corn-syrup corn-syrup and flour: "First put one cup of water in basin, a cup of corn-syrup or sugar, cook until the mixture is a stiff paste. Allow it to cool until it can be handled, then place it on a mixing mix-ing board, or table, and work in flour until it becomes a very stiff paste. "When ready to fish take off a piece that, when rolled into a ball, will cover the hook. This will stay on the hook for some time. A sinker at the end of the line is optional." AAA How Fast? How far and fast does a hatchery bass travel after release in fishing waters? These and other Interesting data will be recorded at Lake Tex-oma Tex-oma this year If anglers will cooperate co-operate at the state's biggest lake on the southern edge of Oklahoma. Eight hundred largemouth black bass, released last February from the state hatchery near Durant, were marked with small metal fin-clips, fin-clips, numbered for future identification. identifi-cation. To date more than twenty caught by fishermen have been reported re-ported to the state game and fish department, according to H. C. Ward, head of the department's fisheries division. u a a Redear Sunfish Staff biologists of the West Virginia Vir-ginia conservation commission's division of ffsh management recently recent-ly became aware of a "strange" sunfish in Lake Chaweva, near Charleston. Some anglers wondered what the fish might be. Technicians of the Commission identified it as a Lepo-mis Lepo-mis microlophus, or the western ,shellcracker (now called the red-ear red-ear sunfish). This species of sunfish, closely related to the pumpkinseed sunfish, !has never been found in West Virginia Vir-ginia waters. Undoubtedly it has ,been introduced into Lake Chaweva from midwestern state areas. The fish has a general shape more like a crappie than the typical bluegill, or other sunfish species. Its pectoral fin is very long and pointed. The opercular flap has a bright orange, or red at times, band on the margin. The maximum size this fish attains is about 12 Inches; however, in crowded lake 'conditions it generally doesn't get much longer than seven inches. The redear has not been collected elsewhere in West Virginia than Lake Chaweva. It is believed, however, how-ever, that it has undoubtedly escaped es-caped from the lake and may be found in some of the Kanawha River drainage streams. This species spe-cies is generally found only in the Mississippi River in Missouri and from southern Indiana, south to Alabama and the Rio Grande. It has been found in Lake Michigan drainage from Indiana. The fish is commonly found in or near large, warm rivers, bayous and lakes. It is found in Buckeye Lake, near Columbus. Co-lumbus. Ohio; and in a few other lakes in the State of Ohio. AAA Deep Bear Den A bear den 35 feet deep yet 25 feet above ground has been discovered dis-covered in the Ottawa National Forest. For-est. As reported by District Ranger Harry Matthews of Kenton, Houghton Hough-ton County, the den was found in a 60-foot white pine stub. Top of the tree had been broken off, so it was marked for cutting. When felled, a mother bear and last year's cub crawled out of the top of the trunk and scampered , off tc freedom. |