Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1909-01-20
FROG NOT
GOOD BAIT
Why Bailey Failed to Catch
the Bass

/ 10 passing the plenty Of time he Las
! on hand in demonstrating how much
! he knows about the angling art. He
finds the greatest, pleasure in casting
/ the Elusive fly that now and then
iempts some incautious black bass to
! It's undoing.
The drought, now partially disturbed
by recent falls of rain, greatly inter
fered with Mr. Baileys indulge in
he pastime, there being more work in
il than he could find water sufficient
to compensate for, the walking a mile
or two between pools and ripples on
the intervening spaces OF dry and
stony river bed being eXasperating as
well.
If some one would only get up an
attachment to rod that would throw
the fly and land the fish" said he, in a
cOntemplative mood, as he mopped his
brow and gazed down the river mile
at spash of water almost boiling in
the sun, "'e would make an independ.
- for: I'd get one right away
60 lnewhere and get a
z bass right away
Alta be swizzled," said Dea-
con Bin Galloway, who fishes some
himself nights for bullhcads why
don't you put a good-sized dobbey
on your line, get some nice young
fr0ss for bait and go out and still fish
for your bass? With that tackle and
hoit van CON iuct co rnu,y, Ia fba oh q 4 a
and read novels while you wait for
EN- 10 lure the bass up to snatch the
handicapped frog That is, if you
want to keep on sticking to bass fish
ing If you want have some real
fishing, though get some night walk
ing Ssh worms and come along with
re tonight and haul in bullheads"
A2gler Railsy doesn't believe in bait
fishing, and he scorns bQ,lheads. but
he did want some bass, SO he said he
wodld give the frog and dobber scheme
chance He cave boy quarter to
get him couple Of dozen young
frcss. They were nice little green fell
lows two inches long He bought the
biggest dohAe IL could find.
1t had eG2se ouill through it and
was all painted green. green as the
frogs We're A dobber is pear
shaped piece OF light wood that floats
in the water, the line PASSING through
the quill The dob5er keeps the bait
in proper position in the water and
down it goes out of sight when a fish
seizes the bait and rushes away
with it,
Mr.. Bailey shoHdered his fsh-pole
and went down to the river, found a
big area of water, sat down in the
shade of trees put lively frog care
fully on his hook and chucked the bait
in the water. The frog went to the
bottom or as near it as the dobber
would let it, and the dobber looked
like miniature green island in the
water.
, The man who still fishes for bass
or any other fish must be we'll stocked
with patience. 1t may be an hour be-
fore fish inclined to take the risk Of
the bait comes along to take it, but
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
an hour may be a safe estimate to put
on the results of the average efforts
of the still fisherman and his bait. but
sometimes they come much faster
Half an hour went by No bite had
come to ratient Mr. Bailey A small
boy, standing up to his knees in the
water on the opposite side of tina pool.
was pulling in a bass every ten min ]
utes Mr. Bailey hailed him as 10 his .
bait intending to bride the urchin into
supplying him with some of the same
kind
What are you fishing with. Bub?"
Bailey asked
Frcqs." tie boy yelled back as
soon as he had safely landed another
big bass he had hooknd
ANGLER Pailey thouabt it was gum /
bas ed funny that he didn't get any
bites but he didn't believe in pulling
UP bis hook eve.y ft.'e while to see
what wa the natter. ard so he sat
and waited
iii get whallorer when one does
grab that baitn said he "A four
Founder ! shouldn't wonder
sun WIS Getting wen along be-
kind the Ellis ever in the west. Bailey /
be an to show chat be was disguised 1
with this bait fishing for bass The
boy had caught al the bass he wanted I
and gone home Supper time was
drawiR5 nigh.
Ices ~zled if I'm going to lose my
SUPPER ter all the bass there is be,
tween here and Havre de Grace said
he. f6ur Founders and ALT"
Then he got up and pulled in lis
line WheG he lifted the big green
dobber from the water he was amazed
to see 30 line hanging beneath it ,
Then a second later 1t was a 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
a fish to come along and take it, and
1t had come up out of the wateiy