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Show If You'd Forget All Your Troubles -Fish By MORRIS ACKERIVLAN Well-Known Fish and Game Authority. Now is the time to plan your fishing trip. As most annual vacations are taken during the months of June, July and August a few suggestions about the 'outfit needed, where and when to go might not be a bad idea. Our suggestion is that you take plenty of old clothes. A sweater is good for the early morning and the cool of the evening. A raincoat rain-coat or slicker is often a welcome friend on most fishing trips. If you are going to fish from a canoe or spend your days in a rowboat you will find a pair of tennis shoes comfortable com-fortable and safer than shoes. A straw hat like the farmer wears is shady and cool. , If it js stream fishing, hip boots or waders are the thing. Stream casting from rocky shores and occasional crossing of wet places call for a fairly heavy pair of water proof shoepacks. An old pair of kid gloves for hands unaccustomed to handling a pair of oars should be In the duffle. "Fly dope" and anti-mosquito preparations prepa-rations never go amiss. They stick up the face and hands but make life more miserable for the common enemy than for the user your only satisfaction. A bit of adhesive tape medicated gauze, cotton, iodine and a mild laxative laxa-tive are other essentials. Now for the instruments of war: Rod, reel, line and lure. In this connection con-nection we advise against spoiling an otherwise successful vacation by the use of poor equipment. Our advice is a good quadruple running bait reel, without frills. If you want the "frill" attachments we suggest an extra part or two. It is not a had idea to take along a couple of reels. Get a sturdy reel in the first place. Any kind of a rod will "do," but the lighter it is the more fun you will have. A steel rod is preferred by some but for ours the split bamboo is the ticket. This for either trolling, bait or fly casting. Try and get a rod that feels right, that has a bit of whip to it. Make the rod "fit" you like you do your shotgun. Then get a line that will measure up with lyour rod and reel and lure. For a 12 gauge gun you need a 12-gauge shell. For a light lure and light rod you need a light line. Remember on a light outfit a small fish gives you the same thrill that a big fish does on. heavy tackle, if not more. ----- - - If trolling for big fish your heavy outfit Is all right if you want to drown the piek, lunge or laker, but if It is "play" you want after the fish Is hooked your light tackle is tho thing. Use your own judgment on the lure either natural or artificial. The world is full of fish-folers. Our only advice Is not to try to sling light lures with heavy tackle. In bait rods it is WOMEN LIKE IT the weight of the lure that carries out the line while in fly rods It is the weight of the line that carries out tho lure. If your tackle dealer don't know the game change tackle dealers. Where and when to go: That is up to you. The opening season on game fish in most states, except trout, is the middle of June to July 1. The beginning begin-ning of the season is the most popular time, though July is not be sneezed at. Atigust i's usually the poorest of the three vacation months for fishing. September is another good time If you 1 can make the grade then. The man who can stand the gaff won't find early October Oc-tober so bad either. Most fish spavri in the spring which accounts for tho closed season at that time. Brook trout and salmon spawn in the fall, con sequently a closed season on them In the fall. |