Show FISH CAUGHT IN anater has a strange adventure Adren ture with a ame ray prey prcy ewa ei it tk A last moment george benz of SL st paul ie Is probably the only man mau in the country who ever caught a bass or came near catching catch lne one with a line on which there wag was not bak h wk halt bait or beinker it happened in this way the line une a bilk ilk no 5 6 had bad become considerably twisted in trolling troll lne ao 0 twisted in tact fact that it would kink badly when reeled in all lines get that way though spoon spoons and most moat other artificial halts baits have swivels on tham to straighten out the line bent benz took the bait and hook book from it and trolled it behind the boat it la 12 au an old trick but known to few flah fish ennen ermen the line in going through the water without a spoon on it reverses th the twist and straightens out in a lit U Us while while trolling in this fashion benz felt a jerk and then a succession of sharp tugs with no idea other than that his line had become fouled by a floating weed or branch he reeled in slowly when not more than twenty feet was out he be became eon convinced vinced that ho be ha fastened to a nah fish in some manner he then played it as carefully as he duld ti tn see the outcome of f the adrance happening the fish fought gamely and tried all it knew to get away but was brought A a until it showed plainly in the tater water it was a halt half pound ree eyed bass and it waa caught about tin thi body near the middle it brought to 0 the boats edes edv all right bat but in th the e attempt to lift it it in save sure one alual flirt and lot got clear falling failing back into the water slid darting away yien benz removed his B spoon poon roe the line ho he left la in its end and the plair pi loop which IB to known as the mens bend this loop was about four inches long and when the line ilus w M dragging through the water must b floated open the flah fish either atrock struck at the liae line or waa wax swimming fat fast when it rn ran isto the loop which waa was juat just big bit ebojo aa to permit of 0 the passage of 0 a part pan ot of its body in lighting the rod it kept of line at a IL stiff tension and there vs w no chance for the loop to slip off of ben benz would have given 1 methia h bad a A to land that flah fish but as it waa was experience that will never cose coms him or to anyone else asala pah been caught or partly caught la 10 saw in the 1001 loo way ways but a red eyed bafs of au unhooked line unique |