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Show BOTH HOOKED SAME PISH. And ths Incident Caused Bad Fsellnfl Betwssn Anglers. Funny things happen In bass fishing. fish-ing. Toward the close of tho season William Hammeyer of Wlnneconnr, Wis., was fishing from a boat wl ' his friend, 0. B. Hamilton of r in. Ind. They wero on Fox Lake and Ashing was not good, which msje them eager. Hammeyer got a strike, fastened his fish nnd begnn to reel In strongly, determined to land his catch without less of tlmo. Hamilton got a strike and did tbe same thing. They hud been an hour without a bite and had art leisure or Inclination to watch one another. The Hist fish after an hour's casting Is apt to get on the nervea. When the bass was close to the boat Hammeyer discovered that hs waa bringing In hla frlend'a line and said: "We're tanglod! Let out little line till I got this fish In." Hamilton discovered the tsnglo at tbe same time and aald the same thing. They glared at each other and reeled furiously. With Jerk that ought to have loos-eced loos-eced all of Ita scales pound bass came out of I he water. Hauimuyer's weed leas hook was fastened In one side of Its Jaw, Hamilton's was filtered filt-ered In tho othor. They lifted the bass In and looked at one ao'ither. They agroed without words to cell It a partnership fish. Both men had cast at the same Instant, In-stant, and their balls had struck the water closo together. Keeling In the balta bad come within a couple of Inches of each other. The fish slttier truck both baits at. one ur It struck one of them, felt the pa. In from the hook, sling Us head to oue aide and got tbe other hook. I |