Wichita eagle., 1889-05-12

bis ancestors did four hundred years ago.
He acquires no hereditary warnings or sus-
,oicions. This may be due to the fact that
he propagates so rapidly that nature has no
time to adapt him to environment and the
rapid progress of the age. Go over to the
pier, rent pole for dime OF any one OF
the numerous furnishers there, buy dozen
minnows for another dime, and, if the
water is clear, I'll warrant perch will bite
before you are ready, no matter how con-
spicuously the hook shows.
The perch, among other things, is lazy.
He would rather take the poor little min
now writing in death agOnles on your
hook than chase the swarm of free ones
which may be lowering all around him.
The furpisher, if you ask him, viii bait
YOUR hook. He viii take q minnow and run
a hook through it just above the tail. Then
he viii run it through again from the other
side just below the gills. The minnow is
then fast, but the hook shows in two places.
If you were angling for black bass in the
rapids of some river this would never do.
You would have to remove the slnker SO
that the mlnnow could swim about and at
tract attention. In order to convince the
bass that there was square deal and no
trap and to enable the ISinnow to live and
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of his bills. running it through his lower
bill and out through the upper one. Then
the minnow would have full use of his body
and tail to SWIM with. You have TO
cast him gently so as not to kill him. If he
died you would have to put on live and
lively one. The bass will not take dead
minnow. Not so with the perch. He will
take a minnow dead or alive, swimming or
helnleSS md ask no ouestloOS
The bait for the perch is usually a matter
of Indifference. When minnows are plenty
il is better TO bait with them. Grasshop-
pers worms. fresh meat, etc, are good bait
for them There is some question, how
ever, on the subject of crabs. The old
fishermen claim that the perch will not
take crabs, that they are only good for
s'sheepsheads." and this specie in fresh
water are not good TO eat. Grabs abound
by the millions among the miles of rocks
forming the Government piers. How they
get there is said 10 be a question, but il IS
not They crowd fearlessly all over the
BOTTOM Of the lake in reasonably shallow
utter. They are partial to rocks, under
meath which they live and breed. When
the rocks were placed in the lake to make
breakwaters the crabs were not Ion @ in find.
ing it out They doubtless migrated there in
numbers and bred fearfuily and wonder
fully underneath the great blocks of grants.
They have friendly habit of crawling up
TO the surface fer food of any kind which
may fall in. When any thing falls in the
water they jump out from their hidang-places
and grasp il in their tentacles. To catch
crabs, all one has 10 do is TO lower the fish
line on which a minnow or other balt is
placed into the shallow water which per-
colates among the rocks of the piers.
a crab will grab the bait in his claws
and absolutely hang on while YOU dra~-up
the line. Whatever the fishermen may say
these fellows make good bait for perch
With all their limbs on the perch are afraid
of the crabs, as their squeeze OF the in
terror OF the fish is not desirable. Then
they have way of extending their ten
tscies so that only large-mouthed fish like
the sheepshead can swallow them. They
have way also Of escaping under rockx
and IN the sands which disgusts the law
perch Now, 10 make bait OF them, null out
the tentacies, and when the perch sees his
enemy helpless he viii grab and swallow
him with a ven geance.
DOUBTLESS the best perch fishing alone
these shores might be had in winter There
US ps2ulla.s staff thing. here al that sea.