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Show r?3?M. .. n.w. TRY NEW LURES. All risli JIavo to Food, What o Thoy Kit? If there is anything a fisherman likes t do it is to g-ct a meso of IMi wherv others have failed to get a bite, and 110 stories arc more frequently told than those of bljr baskets filled at lakes or ponds known to be alivewlth fish, but in which tlio fish wore never before-known to bite. There are lotsof ponds in which fish can be .M.ien but not taken. In some lakes fish may be taken in the spring only, or in midsummer, givlntr rise to the belief that they do not feed at other times. In places where trolling spoons ' alone are used, very often big1 catches ) ane made with files of bass and pickerel, , nml in peaces where only nuttiral baits worms, frogs, minnows; arc popular, artificial lures are often successful. I Jt is 1 elated of a JeiTorfeon county vll- Inge that no one ever used fiies for bass fishing till ahoy vhoknevabout Adirondack Adiron-dack trout lUshing" camp along witli a seven-ounce fly rod, with other tackle to match. "That toothpick catch a fish?" paid the native fishermen. "Why, a half-pound half-pound br.3s would smash it all to pieces." A couple of them were curiotis to know how tin thin.'- worked, and volunteered vol-unteered to row the boat. They got to a big, dark ool under a cedar tree on a ledge of roe.ks, and .1 Grizzly King and Yellow Sallie dropped onto the water like natural files. What followed was convincing to the natives. A black bass of over two pounds in weight grabbed the Grizzly King and wis hooked, lie put up a good fight, but at last rolled up on his side and was dipped up with the landing net. The natives didn'tsay very much, but they did a whole lot of thinking. Light wood rods soon became popular in that region, and bigger messes of fish were the rule. |