Show a B JIM RHODY Best Glow Patterns With anglers and tackle manu manu- manufacturers manufacturers constantly trying to im im- improve improve ha- ha prove and perfect lures that will consistently take fish the task and the cost cast assume expensive Therefore it is a definite boon to anglers when the bigger tackle houses through their own research resea ch facilities which make exhaustive tests possible can find out for the angler without additional expense to him just what patterns and types of this or that lure are most effective For Far instance James Heddon's Sons has provided for far the plug- plug caster an important service by testing and determining what col col- color color color or patterns are most likely to get results and have made this in in- information information information formation public In their own Spook Ray River Rive runts they have found found after after a ayears ayears ayears years year's tests under actual fishing I I A lr 1 Spook Roy Ray River flyer Runts conditions that conditions that there is more to t 0 the new fluorescent lures than just jus t the glow which is activated by violet ultra rays Heddon's Hendon's says frankly that some fluorescent lacquers are not durable dur dur- durable durable able and will lose their fluorescent t qualities within a comparatively short time but in their tests a lacquer was compounded wit with h properties that make it become a apart apart part of the lure and is as durable e as regular plug finishes Discovering that some colors re re- repel repel pel pet rather than attract fish the th company discarded these and con con- concentrated concentrated on those colors which whit h were found to be especially at at- attractive attractive to fish But the warning is i s issued that even these the s e colors color s should not be used in excessive e amounts So to save the angler time and an d money in selecting fluorescent lure lur e patterns heres here's these which the th e tests revealed to be most effective White body with red shore min min- minnow minnow minnow now pattern and red stripe on bel bel- belly ly and back face red eyes black o on n orange body White body with green shore shor e minnow pattern green stripe on a n back and belly face pink eyes eye s black green on-green on green background st Here then according to the test tes t results would be the only two pat pat- patterns terns the angler using the new net v glowing baits would need to as as- assure assure assure sure himself h that he had done a all ll possible in the matter of using fluor fluorescent scent lures to help fill his creel And as most fishermen know by now these lures give best results if used at twilight and dawn A A A Fly Fishing Hints The season of the rod fly man be be- begins begins begins gins to reach its crest in late sum sum- summer summer summer mer and early autumn but begins really along toward the end of May Y or early June This is true because it is then that successive hatches of o f flies become more numerous and an d fd me Ine turn lurn to this most delectable e item as a favorite part of their diet The rod fly-rod angler should observe e most closely the streams he fishes When he is expert enough to see and interpret in terms of fishing tactics what is really happening in and on the stream his chances for a full creel are immeasurably enhanced It is at that stage in his development nt as an angler angler and and only then then that that he will be able to know which tech tech- technique technique and lure will bring him the desired results He should determine if it the trout are lunching on the bottom or at the surface This will give him much of the information required in determining whether to use live or artificial lures a wet or a dry fly The angler should attempt to learn if iI the trout are chasing min min- minnows or hunting for crawfish Or are they grubbing for stream-bed stream larvae Are they snapping up part part- ly-grown ly flies that ward are milling to to- to toward toward the surface or jumping dumping for adult insects resting on or swarm swarm- swarming swarming ing over the pools Jih The successful rod fly angler X will take before n note te of f all these condi- condi conditions di- di bending on a fly fl or turning to his bait box or bucket A A A AGold Gold Gale Fish Hooks Everyone has heard of course of catching fish with a silver silve hook when they have refused refuse well offered but baits but baits how anglers know that the many used real solid ancients these ese were discovered gold hooks Four of in some time ago Ecuador and it is believed they were made that even by a civilizAtion day y gold preceded is the Incas Toy TO- TO TOday too o hooks Precious for fish |