The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1910-09-24

Fish are peculiar. The gamer they
are the more peculiar they seem IL
J be. To particularize:
Every bass fisherman has his way
! to take DR.. Henshalls one best bet
among the game fish. He may he d
fly or artificial bait caster: he may
troll with spoon or live bait; he may
still fish with live bait or the humble
angleworm.
Each method has its following The
fly caster considers himself OF the
elect But you couldn't stun the fly.
tossing theory into the intelligence
of the live bait man or the wooden
minnow caster with potato masher
and wedge.
Ii Is easy 10 tell how 10 take black
bass. / know OF men who make a
comfortable living doing so-and
some are the poorest excuses in the
world when they get down to brass
brads and try TO prove their theories.
Some OF these experts" who tell
you how, but can't do ii themselves,
draw salaries from the manufacture
ers for airing their views upon the
proper way to kill bass These views,
OF course. are written around the Ell
AGENCY OF So-and-Sos wonder work
er. and the publications devoted to
fishing and hunting devote columns
10 these stories, because the manu-
facturers pay for advertising.
I'm not knocking the contraptions
intended to lure the bass from the
water and the money from the angler.
have killed bass with things that
no more resembled anything a bass
would be expected TO take than Kid
Broad resembles Harry Lehr.
I've killed bass with live minnows,
with a chunk OF pork rind, with wood
en- minnows. with spoon hooks, with
! freaks which no sensible bass ought
! to pay attention TO. I've caught beau
! ties upon a hook loaded with the
| lowly angleworm. with frogs with
grasshoppers. and one day, when they
were refusing everything. | accident
ally kicked UP field mouse nest, and,
picking up half dead inhabitant,
hooked Il through the back Of the
neck and offered it TO an old he bass
that had broken the heart of many Il
good fisherman with his wile--and
that evening | dined upon said bass.
But | had TO 70 10 Lewis county,
! New York. sections OF which are al
most as primitive now as when the
/ FIRST settler made his appearance.
/ Lewis county is proud OF its behind
I the-timesness.
One hears more talk about black
bass, pickerel trout and pike, and
tales of deer, bear fox. woodcock.
partridge and pheasant, than OF
crops
1t was on Crystal lake. a bit OF
shimmering silver fringed with emer.
aid. set In a hollow OF the Adirondack
foothills. that | saw local fZaak Wal
tons using a queerest OF all bass bait
and this statement In the face ~
the scores OF mechanical freaks on
the market.
II had h.4ei4-e14t fFeFH-e4 "a s-4i slft-HH n
the sun appeared over the cedars, and
I had fished hard but without success.
As the sun began TO dip, went at IL
again with a supply OF worms and
grasshoppers. In another boat TWO
farmer-guides were fishing. While
| went basslcss. II seemed that every
time looked their way. one or the
other was hauling in bass.
We quit at the same time. They
because enough was sufficient, and
because | wasn't getting anything. As
they tossed their string upon the
bank, asked what they had been
] using.
cat meat replied one.
"Cat meat" | echocd
Sure. Didn't you ever use cat meat
Greatest stun for fish in the world,