The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1902-07-20
FOR FIsHERMEN's LUCK.
How Expert Anglers Catch Fish on
Days When They Are Not Biting.
(Chicago Inter Occan.)

Chicago Inter OCEAN,
Anybody can catch fish when they
are biting. The power of the true-born
angler is shown in his ability to catch
them-some of them-whether they are
biting or not
To do this he must know the charac-
teristicS of the fish the characteristics
of the stream and the weather and the
characteristics of bait. To know bait
which carries with it the knowledge of
how and when to use bait, almost
makes the angler
Nobody ever gets any nearer to an
understanding of the whims of fish
than to know that the whims exist Tt
is within the experience of every rod
man that on one day bass will break
their backs for minnows and on the
next day the same bass in the same
pools will not look at minnows, but
there never lived an ichthyologist wise
enough to do more than guess why
this is so.
The true-born angler demonstrates
/ his skill by keeping his mouth shut.
finding out what the fish want and rak-
ing them in, while imitation anglers
above and below him are perspiring
! swearing and getting nothing. And let
no fellow Undue his mind with tha
brown stained pages of Walton and
osOphy, contemplation and absorption
of the beauties of animate and mani
mate nature. There is a lot of hard
] work and swearing in it-almost as
much swearing as in golf.
The true-b angler viii know, for
I instance, that there are certain seasons
/ in which certain bats are the best: he
will know that there are certain sea-
/ sons in which certain bats are of no
use at all Past years have taught him
/ that it is along in the heat of August,
/ when the FISH are lying deep, that the
/ frog is most fatal TO the bass; that
early in spring angle worms viii often
] prove effective when all else is worth
/ less: that the minnOw which swims a
yard or two deep is Of finer flesh and
better flavor and more vivacity and
vigOr than the top-water minnow, and,
therefore, better lure; but when he
has learned these things he is only
/ completing his apprenticeship
The true-bOrn angler appreciates and
5 understands these bats and knows how
and where to get them, but he must
also know bats which il is wise TO
substitute for them; he must be able
in a manner to create or invent bats.
Often he evolves something which
proves killing when every known lure
/ fails OF this order was the first man
( who thought to use a, strip of white
bacon fat Stimulating a minnow
Doubtless on that day everything had
failed him; doubtless he reasoned that
as bacon fat was white. it might be
made to look like a small fish wheI
travelling through the water: doubtless
he reasoned that as deer viii 90 miles
through the woods TO lick salty earth
fish sometimes need, or would like, Z
taste Of salt The result OF this rea-
soning was a full basket Of green OIL
black beauties and information gener.
ously transmitted to his rivals.
OF this order, too, was the inventor
of the metal spoon, which whirl:
through the water and decoys swim
mers TO their ruin. Doubtless he be
gan with piece Of tin. and thousand
artificial lures have grown out of thi
exper. ment.
For it is established that there ar,
DAYS when bass viii disdain all form
OF food. whatever and viii strike onl,
at deCeiving metal They viii evel
disdain the metal if a bit of genuin
food be attached TO it.
Putting aside all the manufacture,
receptions with which fish are taken
I there are some men who know natura
bats thoroughly. and these men know
| more than is between the covers o
{ / any book, or ever will be, because Their
are a great variety Of living thing
which bass and trout like, and 10 B
: acquainted with these things is TO hav
a wide learning OF insects and smal
creatures which live in and out of tn
r ( water.
A man may put in two months of
s year in acquiring mastery of the grea
division Of graSshoppers. and at III
5 end be far from complete. Many PEG
pie go Epon the streams with expensiv
1 tackle who have no knowledge Of hot
4 valuable the grasshOppers are, muc
5 less of how and where 10 catch then
2 what kinds 10 catch. and how TO impal
D them.
: The Fat, Brown Grasshopper.
! Green frogs are said to be better TIA