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Show WORLD OUTDOORS WHAT kind of fishing do you like best? Live bait or artificial ar-tificial lures? Fly rod, spinning rig, or bait casting? Stream or Lake? Fresh or salt water? Mua-kie Mua-kie or Black Bass? Bream or Crappie? Perch or Catfish? This writer likes them all, which is pretty much the way most anglers feel, if they are really devoted fishermen. It's true that quite a few anglers are purists; some balk at the idea of using any kind of live bait; others look upon the use of artificial lures as a complete waste of time. But, where this corner is concerned, any type of fishing is fun. The purpose of the game is to outwit the finny fellows and It is just as much fun to do it with a shiny minnow as with a small dry fly. Pinned down, the author will admit that artificial lures of the top water type are hard to beat. Ignoring the question of whether you can take more fish with a particular method, this writer likes to do nothing better than to fish with top water plugs and bugs. There is sheer excitement in the process of flipping a top water lure alongside a tree stump or partly submerged log and waiting tensely for the water to explode around it as some angry lunker tries to take it in one swallow. A solid strike on a top water lure is ample reward for an hour of diligent casting. But, when they "just aren't taking," it is as much fun to switch to a cane pole, minnows or crawfish. Sometimes a minnow will lure a big bass from under a log after the choosy gentleman has turned down assorted lures of different sizes, shapes and colors. col-ors. That's the secret of fishing . . . giving the fish what they want. The challenge, of course, lies in determining what might be particularly pleasing to Us palate at a given time. |