Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1908-12-30
FROG NOT
GOOD BAIT
why esIIsy gsIlsa 20 ostoh
the ness

Jerome bailey % oiFty's faIls. .
stifsd blacksmith, hes % late taken
b passing The plenty ~ tlms ne has
p hand In demonstrating hoe much
. knows about the angling art He
nds the greatest pleasure IN casting
he Elusive ~ that nov and then
sinpts some lncautlous black bass 70
= undoinR.
a The drought. now partially disturbed
~ recent falls " rain. greatly Inter.
= sred with Mr Bailsy's indulgence In
be pastime, there being morg work In
: than he could md water avf. RI nj
b compensate for. the walking q mile
~ two between pools and hppIss on
he intervening spaces Of dry and
SstOny river bed being exasperating as
Swell.
III III some one would only get up an
4 httachment to rod that would throw
Z the fly and land the FISH," said he. In a
DIcontempative mood, as he mopped his
; Prov and gazed down the river a mile
|, - a spash of water almost boiling In
n The sun, "fe would make an independ.
: TENT fortune. I'd get one right away
pnd go out somewhere and get a
! whole lot OF big bass right away"
Attachment be swizzled." said Dea.
hcon Bird Galloway. who fishes some
Z himself nights for bullheads why
k1on't you put good.sized dobber
ION your line, get some nice young
frogs for bait and go out and still-fish
Il Nfar .vour haus0 with thot fockIa and
kbait you can just sit down In the shade
land read novels while you wait for
Fem to lure the bass up to snatch the
Handicapped frog. That is II you
want to keep on sticking to bass fish
ing II you want to have some real
4 fishing, though get some night walk
ing fish worms and come along with
4 me tonight and haul in bullheads."
Angler Bailey doesn't believe In bait
fishing, and he scorns bullheads, but
he did want some bass, so he said he
would give the frog and dobber scheme
Ia chance. He gave boy quarter to
Myet him a couple Of dozen young
FROGS. They were nice little green fell
lows, two inches long. He bought the
biggest dobber he could find.
It had a goose quill through It and
was all painted green, green as the
Il frogs were. A dobber Is a pear
shaped piece of light wood that floats
\ In the water, the line passing through
the quill The dobber keeps the bait
n in proper position In the water and
N down 1t goes out of sight when fish
seizes the bait and rushes away
with it.
N Mr.. Bailey shouldered his fish-pole
and went down to the river, found q
big area of water, sat down in the
shade of tree, put lively frog care
fully on his hook and chucked the bait
in the water. The frog went to the
bottom or as near 1t as the dobber
would let 1t, and the dobber looked
a like a miniature green island In the
n water
i The man who still fishes for bass
or any other fish must be well stocked
with patience. 1t may be an, hour be-
fore fish inclined to take the risk Of
the bait comes along to take 1t, but
2 the angler is in constant and pleasur-
able expectation of any moment see
ing the dobber go under, and that sus-
tains him during the wait. Three bites
I an hour may be safe estimate to put
ON the results Of the average efforts
4 of the still fisherman and his bait, but
sometimes they come much faster.
Half an hour went by. No bite had
n come to patient Mr.. Bailey. A small
kboy, standing up to his knees in the
Il water on the opposite side of that pool.
was pulling in bass every ten min.
N utes. Mr. Bailey hailed him as to his
bait, intending to bride the urchin into
supplying him with some of the same
\ kind
What are you fishing with, Bub?"
4 Bailey asked.
4 Frogs" the boy yelled back as
soon as he had safely landed another
i big bass he had hooked.
Angler Bailey thought it was gum
\ bcsted funny that he didn't get any
bites. but he didn't believe in pulling
ND his hook every little while to see
what was the matter. and so he sat
and waited.
"I'll get whalloper when one does
grab that bait!" said he. "A four
! FOUNDER, shouldn't wonder"
4 The sun was getting well along be-
. hind the hills over in the west. Bailey
began to show that he was disguised
with this bait fishing for bass. The
boy had caught all the bass he wanted
and gone home. Supper time was
drawing nigh.
"Jeeswrzzled IL I'm going to lose my
supper for all the bass there is be-
tween here and Havre de Grace" said
he. "four-pounders and ALT"
Then he got up and pulled In his
b line. When he lifted the big green
dobber from the water he was amazed
TO see no line hanging beneath It.
Then a second later 1t was wonder
that the green dobber and everything
else within hearing Of that spot didn't
turn blue. Mr.. Bailey was emitting
language.
Costly perched on the big green
dobber. nesting against the Quill, sat
the little green frog. The little green
frog had become tired, too. waiting for
n fish to come along and take 1t, and
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