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Show Who's Right? Sensational catches of largemouth and Kentucky bass in the impounded impound-ed TVA waters in the pas-t two years are adding fuel to the argument by many anglers that bass do not actually ac-tually hibernate during the winter. At Kentucky Lake, Dale Hollow, Lake Herrington and "-en at newly-impounded newly-impounded Wolf Creek Reservoir (since officially named Lake Cumberland Cum-berland by the Kentucky Legislature) Legisla-ture) catches of bass during even the coldest weather have been amazing. What does this prove? It proves, asserts the "bass-don't-hibernate" school that the scrappy species can be taken the year round, wherever water is open, and that the reason this knowledge hasn been shared by all the angling fraternity is that too many of the members sit around a warm fire vegetating during the winter when they could be out catching bass, if they knew their business. There is no gainsaying the fact that many and big bass are being taken in the winter in the big lakes, and we can add a personal note that it has been done in the streams, too. For instance, in Elk-horn Elk-horn Creek, near Frankfort, Ky., one plugcaster took five small-mouth small-mouth in five casts on a cold, February Feb-ruary day. The creek was clear, but about two feet high when he pulled the feat. We'll grant that this is not a performance per-formance that can be duplicated day in and day out during the winter months, but we think any reasonable reason-able angler will have to re-examine his views on the matter of bass fishing being dead in the wintertime, winter-time, if he is aware of what anglers ( have been doing in the lakes. AAA Too Good To Keep Panfish fishermen, this is for you! Remember how all of us have wondered why someone couldn't come up with the one lure that absolutely ab-solutely would fill a creel with the tasty finny denizens known as bream? Well, we believe we've found one. A picture of it is included in this article, as you see. The lyre is called the "Deep-Minno." It is made by the Weber people at Stevens Ste-vens Point, Wis., and Weber's Mr. A. L. Bauman, who sent us some of the lures to test, did so without 3 any fanfare or without any super-claims super-claims for the lure. But look what it did: On New Year's Day, a day more conducive to radiator-sitting than fishing, we took it to a nearby pond and in two hours caught 48 bream with this one lure. Four bait-fishermen, using worms and minnows, caught only 21 between them, and three other fly-rod men on the pond at the same time, took a total of only 25 fish. A lure that will produce like that is, we thought, too good to keep still about, so we're passing along the information here to all you anglers who find much of your sport fishing pondr and other impounded im-pounded waters for bream or crap-pie. crap-pie. We haven't tried the lure on crappie yet, but have every reason to believe it will be just as effective. - ii Zi Hunting Dogs The English harrier, halfway between be-tween the beagle and foxhound in size, was developed in England for pack hunting of hares. While some have found their way to America they have never been very popular here. Many hunters like fox or 'coon hounds for running rabbits. These faster hounds are usually inefficient ineffi-cient in hunting cottontails as these rabbits are likely to "hole up" before be-fore fast hounds. However, varying hares are much different quarry. These big "snowshoe" hares will run for hours ahead of the hounds and seldom hole. In the deep snow of the north woods many prefer a fast foxhound for this sport the faster the better. Few hounds are fast enough to catch these speedsters speed-sters but it can be done. 'Coon or tree hounds. Perhaps the aristocrat of hounds is the "straight 'cooner." by "straight" is meant a dog that will run nothing but raccoon. Such hounds usually do not reach. perfection short of three or more' years of age. Other "varmint" hounds run oppossum and skunk. AAA Rod Gadget Anglers who fish from a boat will find this gadget helpful. Take an old bicycle tire and cut three pieces from it .Tbout three inches long. Turn the open side up and fasten on the inside of your boat three or four inches below the gunwale to hold your rod when not in use. It will not only keep the red from being be-ing knocked overboard, hut keeps it away from sand and water and also lesr- the "nances of it being broken. |