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Show Mat Bass Eat m.th bass eat a wide LafS foods, insects and small t!"e torn a large part of their r (eS H crayfish and frogs also iie9to. rather frequently. The n 01 . bass feed largely on water Line their first few weeks, ;:ta wU aquatic insects and ;. fish comprise an increasing-;;rgrpartoftheirJood. increasing-;;rgrpartoftheirJood. ;-s in northern waters, because raving season is longer. How-i How-i C southern fish seldom live ::'r than eight years, while a '.um age of 15 years has been h orded for northern members of oecies. As a matter of interest ;fmTbe noted that the world's 1 rd largemouth, caught in Florins Flori-ns weighed slightly over 22 pounds, baits used successfully in hs fishing are many and varied. Htmt of the more widely used li B'tural baits are minnows, cray-i cray-i 4 grasshoppers and helgramites. -Wificial baits include a large 'variety of both surface and under-i under-i nler lures for use on casting rods ' ,,'fjyrods. Among these are flies, 5 jppjjg bugs, floating and deep-;: deep-;: soring plugs, and spoons. 9 t may be safely stated that no ! Eatter when, where, or how you : you'll never forget the thrill o' landing a largemouth which can qualify for the pioud name "old lineside." L i AAA iDuck Outlook ' ad signs indicate that the masses : (i waterfowl breeding in western -Canada are determined to make 1 "ill one of the most productive sea-- sea-- cons in recent years. Their chief 1 ally is Mother Nature, this sem-:: sem-:: ister apparently in one of her most ' beneficent moods. Summing up general waterfowl ' conditions in the June issue of the !. -Duckological," Bert W. Cart-' Cart-' night, chief naturalist of Ducks ; Unlimited (Canada), reports, "Duck I breeding conditions and surface ," waters are more uniformly ideal torn Western Ontario across the . prairies to the Rocky Mountains ', and from the International boun-, boun-, car? north to the Peace River dis-1 dis-1 trie! in north-western Alberta, than . ley have been in any previous year ; since Ducks Unlimited started in ' :S3." AAA hr The Defense The persecution of beneficial hawks has gone on for centuries, and from the files of the Cincinnati ; Conservation Society, which is making an extensive study ef nawks and owls, some of the reasons rea-sons (or this persecution have come forth. English game keepers shot hawks for centuries. These were the true: "bird hawks", similar to our blue-darlers, blue-darlers, the sharp - shinned and. Cooper's hawks. When the colonists i came to these shores all birds of 1 prey were considered hawks. The ij slow-dying Buteos, like the redtail,: hich were called "buzzards" in England, became lumped with the damage-doing darters. All hawks, to the layman, are "chicken j lawks". Our beneficial hawks have ; suffered ever since. The soaring hawks, or mouse lawks, are easily hit with a shot-fin, shot-fin, and they bear the brunt of the persecution. These are the birds Ju see strung up along fences; a tribute to the farmer's ignoranc ! the good they do. ' Ho'tidStuH" HI chard Cameron, Pittsfield, is a candidate for the Alger-ry Alger-ry fishing hero of the year in Maine. t With an u trout-fishing outfit, g Cameron confounded, re- "Mr, aU of the seasoned Atlantic ; ..uu iisnermen on the Narragua-ro Narragua-ro river, Cherryfield. It was his first Atlantic salmon "tog trip, yet with a 4,oz rodi w-lb. test leader and No. 8 buck-11 buck-11 ay, he took two huge salmon in day. The first, a ll-pounder, Wovided such a thrill that Cameron . d up-river from Academy pool uttle Falls pool and proceeded L n6 8 "0ne-That-Didn't-Get-ann ,, lunker weighing 16 lbs. U-ounces. sawmernn pIayed "is second m 2y4 hours. merf6 0De 01 the test fisher-saiH fisher-saiH r 6 V6 Seen this section," Cr rT Warden WaUy Barron, to bIyfleW' rds. "He had "ut land SUCh Ush D ln Mack & White anMov!"iSm is 0,81 condition of the sIL Ply f black Pigment in a. tience, an occasional black 'i'theqM(,1iel,-rat0rother anima1' "hich h Uo Mutant Pheasant sional been bred from occa-Cetanirtie occa-Cetanirtie oHsPS the Coftm 15 condition of a have aP'Ement b fte skin. So, we 'luirrel OCcasional white deer, |