The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-11-29
A SEASONS FISHING.
Clarence Dening's Luck fin Bantam
 Lake.
(Litchfe1d Enquirer,

Clarence Deming says that the Ban tam Lake open fishing season now closing has has had = some & sxceptlonal , Tea ga, Litchfield for his summer stay until about the tenth of August, being de- tained in New Haven as one of the arbitratorS in the local controversy over the wages of the troI1eynen. But
 he prolonged his fishing on the Lake: ] for the first time in many years, until 1 the end of October.
 The first days fishing in August gave the biggest string of the season
 MT. Deming and his son Robert, talk l ing two pounds each and the two 1 largest each three pounds. Besides the bass on that day some sixty perch
 and pickerel were caught It shows the VI imsicaI nature of the black 1 bass that two days later fishing at the ! same place with the same tackle and 1 After that big catch bass fishing fell 1 off and following the whole season l through, not more than forty were taken in the Deming boat and none. Of them of great size The largest bass of the season, so far as known, weigh ing an ounce or two short of five 1 keeper of the White boats. while fish | ing near sundown one day for pick ereI.
 The perch fishing of the season has l ing says, both as to size and number. l Pickeref. however. have been more RFe0Oy in MT. Deming's belief yield bigger strings in boat fishing than gener- ation ago. They also averaged some
 what larger than in previous years. with an absolutely empty stomach, l weighed three pounds and nine
 ever taken in the Deming boat-from | which pickerel are never hshed for and are only taken incidentally was
 twenty-five inches long. The total r-a aff1Fr 1R TAavr1 hi about eleven weeks of sport has been
 about 800 fish of all kinds.
 A novelty of the season was the
 catching in late October of three bass of about a pound each, all hooked in
 deep water and making almost none Of the characteristic fight. These Oc- water, proved much better flavor than the summer bass and the same, in less
 degree. Is true of the perch. while a few large roach taken in October were so much better when served on the table. than in hot weather, as to seem a different fish
 much less freely taken at the Lake than usual and the fear that they would run out'' peter fish seems now groundless. A considerable number of very large white perch were caught, but in almost every case in deep water and on dark days or at night when erman brought in four such white perch averaging three-quarters of pound each and a number have been reported from the East side of the Lake of double that size.
 A striking phase of the lake during the season has been the exceptional
 low water and up to the heavy rain ably it's lowest stage on record, rocks
 and reefs appearing which the older
 fisher of the lake had never before
 the deep water weeds, noticed for sev-
 eral years in the lake. has continued The "Spikeweed'' 50 called (potamoge-
 ton) has almost nowhere been seen
 above water and in much diminished
 areas and thickness below 1t. And
 the deep water thread weed usually
 be found this year. The green spore
 which turn the lake in summer to the
 complexion of pea soup appeared
 usual but in quantity more variable
 evidence as ..buncted'. pun @ masses mas ' sug-
 company's ice crop. Each year brings
 it's evidence that the lake is shallow
 ing fast on the eastern shore but f1ll- Ing even more rapidly in "Bundy's that point it is now at least a dozen rods out to overhead depth as com i years ago. The fill is undoubtedly | caused by western drift of muddy wa 1 ters from the mouth of the inlet
 A novel incident of the seasons fish I. ing was this: Robert Deming when ] fishing in water above five feet deep | with two smells on the line-one above l the other-caugl1t the lower hook on 1 stone or snag and was forced to 1 break the line above the floating cork. | A few moments later the cork began 1 to move away and presently disap- peared under water. A fish had evt- l dently taken the upper bait, detached l the lower hook and started his | aquatic travels Three days later | Roberts father fishing at a point some | forty rods away saw a floating cork. | It was the one his son had lost three | days before. The lower hook had | caught on another snag and on the | upper one was the largest perch of the