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Show fiom . . . Torn Mann FROM THE MAIL B G When I was a kid 1 wis fascinated fasci-nated by tying quieily on a bank and observing the habits of th. Maybe that's why today I have ail 18,000 gallon fish bowl right in my office. In it are many species of fish but i'm especially jnteiested m the big, ol' bass in there. lake one we nicknamed Leroy Brown. 1 put him in the aquarium after I caught him and he weighed about a pound. Now he's over five and he"s boss of about a ten-foot radius at one end of the tank. When we put a new bass into the tank the colder water makes it sluggish and it is unoriented, so it tries to hide. Ol' Leroy eases up to the newcomer, nudges him a few times, and stays with him until he becomes normal a?ain. . And when we're testing lures, Leroy never goes for one. Why I've even seen him buir.p away another bass which began chasing a lure. The only time Leroy will take a !urtf is when he's guarding his nest, tvon then, he doesn't strike the lure but just takes it in his big jaws and carries it off to drop it. If all bass were as smart as Leroy, Le-roy, I might not be in business. But, bass are a whole lot like humans, we have our smart ones and some not so smart. And I'm sure the less smart bass we can catch taste just as good as the smarter ones we probably prob-ably never will catch. |