The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1895-07-23
BASS IN NORTHERN LAKES.

This is for the benefit OF the man
who hasn't delved into bass fishing
deeply, and, having two weeks TO
spend on his vacation, wants to know
where be can go have little Sport
with the rod, doesn't want TO spend all
last winters salary getting ready, and
can show fish or two for the frying
pan.
There is strong dash of caste a
mong fishermen. The story-book an
gler is lazy, not-good-for-much sort
of a fellow, who will fish with any
body, anywhere, use the same bottle
all day long and divide strings at
night.
The fisherman in real life is one of
the most jealous, uppish men in the
world about the angles of the sport
that he has picked up from experience
under many hot suns.
That is why the fellow who casts
the fly for trout looks with disdain on
the fellow who digs worms, and, worse
than that, brings home string at
night. He regards him as unscientific
and "unsportsmanlike."
But the bait fisherman looks upon
the fly caster as a dude. He looks
over the other fellows hook of flies
with a curl on his lip-doesn't care a
rap about the difference between a
brown hackle and any other fly.
It's the same way with the bass
fishers. The bait caster wouldn't fish
with a fly for wages, and the fly caster
regards the trophy that is hooked
with a minnow as plebian sort of a
bass that does disgrace to the gamy
breed. Both dislike the man who
does not use a reel.
And there you are.
The man on his vacation does not
care for style, yet he does not want
to be scOrned when he is telling how
t biggest one he struck" got away.
There isn't lake in the North that
hasn't bass i'll it. Maybe they are
thicker in some than in others, but
they are there, just as ravenous, as full
of fight as can be. A black bass is
good enough game for any ones bas-
ket He never quits till he is in the
boat. And here is good way to get
him:
Go to some store and spend, say, 80
cents for a hundred feet Of not heavy
but strong line. Take a light and,
fairly heavy sinker. Tie one one the
line at least six feet above the hook.
Then when you are trolling along
slowly, or simply drifting before the
wind, the sinker will sag below the
hook and the latter will have fullssad
free motion and keep out of the we5ls.
There are some weeds in the clearesta
of lakes.
1t you don't want to wade in some
brook and catch sinners, buy few.
You wont need over twenty at the
best of lakes. Shines at least tRee
inches long will give the best results.
Not a snowy array of tackle, but it
is all you need for this, one of the
most successful styles of catching
black bass. In the summer and fall.
the bass do not favor shallow water
much. They like to lie near the bot
tom in twenty feet of water, watching
for stray morsel of lively food. You
have gotten in your boat and have put
out most of your 100 feet of line. The
breeze raises little ripple on the
the lakes, smooth surface, enough to
prevent fish being frightened at your
boat, and you are drifting before the
wind with now and then turn of the
oar to keep her nose in line. Away
back of y on your live minnow, hooked
the lips only, and playing on
the loose end of the line, is moving
slowly along, down in easy striking
distance of the lasy bass. The boat is