Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1917-06-12
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yTREAlI GAVE FISHING zoe g.

My Dear Buck:
They are with us by the hundreds
and even thousands, the various
shaped wooden plugs, painted in every
color in the deck and then few ex-
ira cubist daubs thrown in for luck.
And here's the funny part, old chap.
they all seem to get the fish, more or
less, according to the experiences of
the manipulation Of the rod
Although the majority of the arti-
fetal bats do not resemble any nat.
ural bait, that is, not that you could
notice WITHOUT first having read their
pedigrees, through some inexplainable
reason the fish strike them, and, as
they generally have hooks galore, even
the beginner has no difficulty in hook
ing his fish; fact is, many times the
fish hooks itself. OF course you'll have
to jot this down in your dream-book.
"Hookin' EN- doesn't always mean
landin' EN-"
What Makes EN- Do II?
Probably when highly cultured
bass sees one of these gloriously dec
GRATED affairs splash in his home
grounds he up and makes dash at it
in anger at the rough-neck intrusion
of the queer-looking object, or per
haps strikes it in pure cuss edness,
egged on by the wonderful movements
of the little demon in its wcbble back
home to the caster.
How they ever dug the big bunch
out of the woodpile and got away with
it is the eighth wonder of the world.
More power to 'em. What would a
fellow do if he couldn't browse around
among a bunch of new ones and select
few to take along on each trip and
try them out on the unsuspecting fish.
You Never Can Tell.
You never know what you can do
with one of these dippy, diving, wob-
bling wonders till you try it and then
all the advance dope and traditions of
that particular bait may go to smash
in one afternoons fishing and new vic
tories in an entirely different line of
fishing be pegged up to its credit.
To illustrate this point, old man, at
the opening of the season i took
flyer at bass. 1t had been cold and
rainy, with high waters, and the bass
were quiet and far-offish. My tackle
box was decked out with a collection
of lures guaranteed to make any bass
nervous, jealous or fighting mad. The
bass sure were off their feed, both in
color and shape. Nothing seemed to
coax them out of the wet. l snapped
on South Bend Bass-ereno bait, all
white with a red head, and tried that
as an enticer. Nothing doing with the
walleyed pike fishing as fellow could
find anywhere. Almost every cast
brought a strike, and in the after
Moons casting this little old bass lure
hooked 80 wall-eyed pike, all OF which
were thrown back in the drink except
the larger ones and that left stringer
with the limit and none below two
pounds, topped with six and half
FOUNDER. My fishing pal and guide
had the same luck with white Wilson
Wobbler with red flutes, by which he
swears like a pagan. They were sure
off the bass but on the pike.
The CoIors They Like.
AS to color, the preference seems to
be with white body and red head, fol
lowed by all red, all yellow, green back
with white belly and rainbow, but
what they take one day may be passed
without a squint the next. However.
with the above colors in your tackle
outfit you probably can please them
any day.
The luminous-painted plug, which, II
exposed to daylight or artificial light,
CLOVIS like the dampened head Of
match, makes an excellent bait for az
ter shutdown or moonlight casting.
The fact that these bats float when
in the water and not in motion makes
them an ideal lure for the beginner,
especially when he puts in a session
with q little old back lash. He knows
his bait is floating instead Of snag-
ging, which was the habit Of the
daddy" of this kind of plug, the old
underwater sinker that found more
snags and hook holds than a fellow
thought could exist in we'll regulated
fishing waters.
Lures That Make EN- Strike.
For a selection of lively artificials,
the Jamison Coaxer, which is a cross
between a chunk of pork and a hum
ming bird, makes a good one to start
with; the Heddons Baby Crab Wig
gler gives all the moves of a crawfsh
going home to it's mother and that
sure is pie for the bass. The Wilson
Fluted Wobbler, South Bend Bass-erenO
and Rush Tango Minnow, all with
white body and red heads, give you
a bunch of dives, dips and crawls that
is hard to beat.
With these bats in your tackle box,
and any others that tickle your fancy,
you ought to be able to slip one over
on the unsuspecting fish, and at the
same time have lot of fun watching
them do their dance in the water,
DIXIE.