Show BAIT IS A HUMBUG Queer Freaks in Lures That Tempt Finny Tribe Piscatorial Brood Eagerly Jump fo fort for Hobgoblin Monstrosities That Would be Food only for Billy Goats i I St. St Paul Minn Why Why does a fish bite Of or course there Is the anglers anger adroitness luck experience personal magnetism and all that and anc everyone can tell why a fish doesn't bite there are as many Jinx as thero there ire Ife fishermen But Dut why does a fish bite ite What is the psychology Of ot bait ball Doubtless angling originally con con- listed isted In offering something to tempt the Jie e appetite of the piscatorial brood But that Idea seems almost to hav have havo out of the world old business Jf f fishing For of all th the hundreds of ot I lures hires used by casters for fish few would satisfy hunger If it the game garn sought ought were billy goats or ostriches the e combinations of r rubber ber tin tin glass glass glass' paint aint and feathers might be tempting But why any sane fish will Jump for a aed aed aed ed and nd greC green hobgoblin that Ies' Ies nothing It lt ever has seen before h s a mystery to fishermen tod id idt why t will grab it today and pass pass it by with cold disdain tomorrow is as deep L i mystery They're inconsistent too and yOU youve you've ot to give them something new v all he time e. e Now the ibis fly is the heble hob ale Ie skirt o of angling Last year It w was s she he bucktail and the year before something else Youve You've got to kec keep J ap Jp on the fashions in flies me if it you want wanto 0 o catch fish Th The ibis fly resembles nothing that the fish feed Iced on A vermillion feather hides bides a hook that may mayor or may n nci not I have baye attached a tab of salt pork Yet the fishermen who have haye cau caught hl the big bass this year say eay there Is k nothing so as the Ibis fly The Thi fish sh take it and the angler has no regret regret re regret gret in being a nature faker There Is a story of the buck bucl taU origin that being a fish story cannot ie be e questioned as to its authenticity I r l F oc I OO I ji la laci ci H. 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I s Some e Freak Artificial Baits Salts I 1 A A A. hun hunter er In the north stalking de deer 1 G saw Baw W a a herd In In a lake and while g get gi getting ting Ung range saw a large fish jump repeatedly re re- repeatedly at the tail of a buck r bringing down the deer he fixed tb tall tail on a hook it proved the the best he ever had used The bud buck tail fly ny a 1 brown and white tuft of hair Is Isi Isa i good rood bait though there is no ins 1 listed that It Jt t could have been ben copied from m. m J I I But the buck tail tall and ibis fly are aret t morsels morsel's to human ey eyes J i with the monstrosities that the fish have been bean Invited to bite at atIn i iI In seasons past Any self-respecting self I I fish Bsh getting in early from a little craw crai- crai I da dad supper of the night before mIg mfg might not be blamed for mistaking an ibis or r a buck tail taI for something he lie h had hd d seen In pairs or fours at some oth other lime time But the fish that strikes at atI ata I coaxer or a kid t t two freak baits probably has had domestic domes domes- om ii tic tie troubles trouble I IThe J 3 I I The Paris of fish bait fashions 1 In the east and it is a notable fact fae that none of the tho frivolous things ha ba haI bare II T I The I come from prohibition territory I I Inventor of fish lures has bas a temPe tempera temperament I ment meat that Is Is' not fostered In dry coi co tries Take the coaxer co xer It re resembles resembles a miniature rooster in profile pro Po- is set 0 off tile file a hunk of white wood h two IWO o by a pert tail of red feathers and cute little suggestions of wings wings' of red felt Celt Natural histories show aba no freaks Creaks that could have been the II Inspiration In on for this And the he coaxer Ja J. some Borne persuader angl anglers rs will tell Y you From the Impressionistic chOO J J. 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