The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-05-17
BASS TIME IS here.
Return of the Season the
Bait-Caster Delights In.
the RIGHT KIND OF OUTFIT.
Practical Advice About Rods,
q, 4 Lines and Lures

Loose on Lures-Problem Of the Lint
the Art Of Bait.Casting-Reei
Cheaper Than They Were-The Porl
Rig the Best to Begin With--Time Il
Have Sport With the wall.Eyed Pike
In a week or ten days bass fishing will b
generally open throughout the United
States, and the hearts of the huge arm,
Of bait casters will he warm within them.
They form a class Of fishermen distinc,
from all others. They hold themselves
aloof. believing themselves to be the elect
and they associate with men less fortunate
only to tell them of the things they have
done and how to do them.
They regard the trout men, the wielders
of the whipstock rod and the fly. witt
liberation; they look upon trollers FOL
buefish and such swimmers with con
tempt, and as for the man who flshe,
with handline in surf or stream they refuse
to admit that he exists. He is not on earth
10 them
For every ocvotee of other branches oil
angling in America are ten bait casters
and they have the advantage In numbers
and volubilty. There is much to be said
for them and the manner in which they
pass their holidays.
The fly caster Is confined to narrow
and tortuous stream, up or down which
ne wanders with water in his boots. and
the sport he has depends not so much on
the size and strength Of the fish he takes
as upon the fragility and inefieotiveness
Of his rod and tackle. His maxim is, the
weaker the rod and line the more fun
there is TO it, and this maxim the bass
fisherman regards as a species of idiocy.
The handline man is a man of brute
strength and his art lacks art. He makes
long throw and waits for bite and when
he Rets it hauls in thumb over thumb,
and he makes a lot Of noise shouting and
dancing about in the curling coulbers to
hide from the public the hollowncss of
his JOY.
But the bait caster has all waters for
his own. The man who wrestles nightly
with leaping tuna or tarpon is a bait catcher;
the man who fights the giant muskallonge
"a lie should be caught is bait caster:
the man who lures and battles with the red.
eyed bass lie a bait caster.
Sea and lake ard rivers are his. No
pert-up Utica confines his powers. nor
= narrowed surface Of the waters bright;
he nings his bait through all the gladstone
Hours, and wide and far he strewe his lies
Atr,,ight.
Cd. 1te halt cnsters FOR bass have waited with
impatience through all OF the long inter
moHthe. They quit last October and the
Intervening time has been a gray time.
They have killed much of il by foreg gather
1; tYo ,ant, telling Of tie deeds of the past but
tAlk is a poor substitute for acts. They ha We
taken down the reds time and often, and
earh ioint And scratch and scar has told Of
some battle won and lost. bu, ALWAYS the
rtpls have but put back into the cases with
siphs and longinrs
Nn-y the lonc penance is practicalIven ended
tn. weak ahead il a wcck of nrensrat;or
ana that is almost Al, much fun as the thing
i,sely II is hallowed bv the lows of antici-
milton
-Itone sheds A rosy glow over every foot of
water seen in the minds eve. Every he s.
rnplcr knows OF some secret bav Of a lake or
bend of stream in which a three-pourder
ia waiting for him, and he longs 20 tell A
companion Of 1t, but refrains. self-preser.
walton being the first law of nature.
You ma know the bait caster in the latter
c;sys Of Nav as YOU pass alorg the street by
a chgstered iovous CLEAN in his eve nv
sunf,,seel rays of happiness which stream
,hr,uoh tho nores of his skin. nv n disnosi.
ton 70 break into ch,lckles without causc.
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attention 10 such details as truck. wngons
and cars
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