The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-10-25

pon. It is big body for Wisconsin. being eight miles long by three in width at places.
 l At one end of it are several hotels, : with ping-pOng tables. golf links and such things: at the other end of it are f the red eyes. There is little or no fish ing of any kind at the hotel end of ! Green Lake; the totels have been put there because at that point the railway makes in.
 ! There is no way to get to the red-eye ground in October except by pulling l boat. because all of the naptha launch : es have gone out of commission. The men who know where the red eyes are ] go to the hotels. hire guides. are pulled the eight miles down in the morning and the eight miles back at night: some of them even make tke sixteen mile pull themselves.
 l Near the lower end of the lake and some distance from shore is a bluff some five hundred yards long; it is as straight as a wall; on it's top, gradually lessening toward shore, is fifteen feet of water; six inches beyond it's edge line and plummet may be dropped for a hundred feet.
 i All spring and summer the big bass lie in this deep water. how far below no , man can say, since they will not bite at anything sent down to them. It is pre- stunned that they live on red-sided min- nows, which themselves like very deep, cool water in the heated term. i In October the red eyes come up and 1 feed on the top of the bluff in the com paratively shallow water. Then they may be captured.
 1 They will not take the frog, of course, nor will they strike at the spoon or any other metal lure. The only thing which i seems to tempt them at all is the n1in- now, either the shfner or the chub, but preferably the sinner.
 They will not strike at the minnow if it be cast and brought in close to the surface. The lure must be permitted to sink until it is within yard of the bot tom and reeled in very slowly. 1 Then the black bass, who has lived all summer in water of ice coldness. will 1 hit it and start with rush, and the angler will have his hands full for some minutes. The fighting capacities of these fish seem to vary only in propor- tiOn to their weights. The five -pound- CTS will fight harder than the four pounders, and the six-pounders, to which heft they sometimes attain, will ] fight harder than the five-pounders. 1 To hook securely with light tackle and quadruplem emultiplying reel a genuine black btss of six pounds is an experi- ence that any angler " ould remember if he lived until the Pyra.nid ofs Cheops falls down. There is no rod. line and reel with which this fish may be brought directly to the landing net. The clubs with which men fish for the leaping tuna, or even the tarpon rod, would be strong enough, of course, and a single revolution muskallonge reel would have sufficient power, but the hook would not hold, or rather it would cut through the flesh of the mouth if once the powerful little giant were per lnitted to hurl his weight stiffly against it.
 The big red eye must be worried down and how long this will take almost any aHSleF WnO ndS ever HOOkeu even four -pounder will be able to estimate.
 Here is a sample score from the low CT end of Green Lake; not an excessive score, just common score; Dr. J. V. Linthicun, of Chicago, fishing there took with a bamboo rod of six ounces, a No. 5 hard-wound silk line, a quadru- ple-multiplying reel or ordinary size and a Cincinnati bass hook with six inch blue-gut shell in five hours seven teen red eyed bass weighing eighty-sev- en pounds. One of the bass weighed six pounds three ounces. one weighed six pounds even, four others ran over five pounds each.
 It is not believed by frequenters ot this strange haunt of the black bass that a score like this could be made anywhere else in America; the presence of black bass of that size in that place
 is due, of course, to exceptional water conditions-New York Sun.