Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-04-25
FISH AND FISHERMEN

Great care should be used in purchasing
rod, for many faults may be hid by the
varnsh with which 1t Is finished The
best grade of bamboo rods are made from
tonquin Cor tonkan) cane. Calcutta and
Japanese bamboo the first named being
by far the best
If your rod Is made by n reputable
maker there Is little need of a minute in.
spection OF II for knots and other defects,
although 1t should not be taken without
any inspection at all. If 1t be a cheap
rod of split bamboo, look for openings in
the cane. See that each part fits the
other. The ferrules should fit snugly, but
not too tight. Do not select a rod upon
which the ferrules are fastened by small
nail or pin. This mode of fastening them
is only used on the cheapest and poorest
rods 1t Is also we'll to try the Swing
of several rods. in order to judge their
feel in your hands
DO not select n top.heavy rod for, while
such a rod may be a strong caster, 1t will
prove very firing in actual work. The
rod should he tried not only in the whole.
but in its different sections. after which
it should be fitted with reel and line, and
again tested with these additions to IT,
DO not buy your rod to fit your reel, but
select the rod first and then fe the reel
to- II.
Rods should he revarnished at least
once a year, and 1t will be often found
that they need other repairs, such as
rewrapping, resettlng of ferrules and re-
newing of worn guides. These repairs If
made when needed add materially TO the
life of the rod especially to those made
of cane and split bamboo. which, unless
carefully attended to, are very apt, when
wet, to soften and lose their action.
In renewing guides on both salt and
fresh water rods. those made of agate
should by all means he selected on aC-
count of their free.running and line.sav-
ing qualities.
Reels require but little care a thorough
cleaning and oiling at the beginning of
the season generally proving all that is
needed for reels used in fresh.water fish
ing. Broad-spool casting reels. however,
should be cleaned and oiled frequently
when in use. and reels used In salt water
fishing and surf-castng should be exam
ined daily when In use, to prevent their
becoming clogged with sand which, II al
lowed to remain between the spool and
plates, will destroy the gears.
THE BLACK BASS FAMILY.
BY reason of their wide geographical
distribution, black bass are known by
many popular names. The small-mouth
black bass Is known as the lake bass,
brown bass ninny bass, hog bass. trout
perch, brown trout jumper. mountain
trout, and. in some of the mountain sec
tions of North Carolina, Tennessee and
Virginia, as black perch.
The large-mouth bass is known as Os-
wego bass, lake bass. green bass, yellow
bass. moss bass, bayou bass, trout, jump
err chub and Welshman. In the North IT
is generally called black bass in Virginia
and North Carolina 1t is usually desig-
mated club. and In Florida and other
Southern States 1t is often called trout,
The calico and rock bass are also known
by many names peculiar to the various
localities where they are found. For in
stance. the former have received the
names of strawberry bass, green bass,
bitterhead, barfish, iamplighter google
eye perch. speckled perch and speckled
trout The latter crock bass) are also
,nown as red-eye, red-eye perch and gog-
gle-eye.
The crappie is known in its native
waters as crappie. new light, cambellite.
sac-a-lite. bachelor, chinquapin, perch,
croppIe and crOpet, 1t Is very similar to
the calico bass and is frequently taken
for that fish by anglers.
The black bass found in the colder
waters of the streams in the Northern
States put up a fight that tests the skill
and loettle of the expert angler. while
those found in the waters of the extreme
Southern States can be taken with hardly
a struggle.