The daily Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1916-1917, 1917-08-05

One uOeSn I nave W 80 W thC ieo.h
les. or to the northern lakes, or even
70 the Ozarks for real fishing, if he
lives in Lincoln County. There's fish
ing enough right here at home-sev-
eral brands of it, in fact, so that if he
doesn't like one kind there are 9TH
ers TO be had There's the lazy bank
fishing. with pole and line. the for
mer set deep in the mud bank so that
il doesn't have to be held. Then
there's troutline fishing, jug fishing.
and one can even find satisfactory
casting if he will hunt for it. In days
gone by there was hand fishing-but
that's illegal now, so of course it
isn't INDUCED in much.
Cuivre River, Big Creek. Lead
/ Creek and few smaller streams
! have plenty OF fish in season. Crap
pie, bass. buffalo and catfish are the
principal kinds found. OF these
kinds. probably catfish are the most
abundant, the most easily caught,
are real good to eat, and one can en-
| Joy pretty fair sport fishing for them.
| OF course, there's real fishing over
on the mississippi River-but that's
getting into the realm of professional
! ism. and the average fisherman is
only an amateur.
! Near the Cap-au-Gris ford on the
Cuivre are several holes of deep
! quiet water. Two or three lines
/ dropped into these holes from the
banks early in the morning or late in
the evening will net the fisherman at
| least one mess" of fish in an average
day. Here the nimrOd seeks catfish
'mudcats' and channel cats" the
former black. with yellow bellies and
! wide, fat heads; the latter slender
and graceful, blue back and white be-
meath. an especially delicious meat.
Catfish bite at any kind of bait. Early
IN the spring angle worms are about
as successful as bait as minnOws or
crawfish.
TrOutIine Fishing Good on the Cuiyre.
Troutline fishing is successful most
anywhere on the Cuivre. Two pOpu-
lar places are at the mouth of Lead
Creek and at Frenchman's Bluff
There's lots of work to successful
troutline fishing, but for the man
who can hardly stand it to wait for
hours for a bite. this kind of fishing
should be just the thing. One can
set his line just before dark, go to
sleep. get up just before daybreak
and find his fish there on the line
waiting for him-sometimes You
cant work at itin daytime-thats one
of its beauties. You're not really
. lazy when you lie around camp all
day, because you couldn't do any
thing at trOutline fishing then even ii
you wanted to. Turtles and gars eat
all the bait in the daytime They get
some of it at night, too.
When it begins to get cool in the
afternoon or evening it's time to seine
for bait-minnOws and crawfish. By
the time you have plenty it's time to
set the line-and by the time that's
] 'rn
line $50 feet long is stretched diago-
nally across the river just below a
rifle. Here the fish, the large ones,
come at night for food They don't
! hunt food down stream-only I'D
stream-sO don't make the mistake
of setting the line above the rifle.
At intervals of Is inches along this
line are tied shorter lines, about 70
or II inches long, to which the hooks
are fastened. Probably seventy-five
hooks are placed ON the line. Seems
that would be enough to catch all the
fish in one night, but you can spend
week there and not have to change
your line. And surely there can't be
much more fun in feeling trout
strike your line than there is in
swinging 10 or 15-pound catfish into
your boat from a troutline. He'll
keep you busy several seconds at
least, and he gets away just often
enough to make it exciting.
Casting or jug Fishing Bring Results.
OF course. if you like. you can sup
plement the troutline fishing with a
little casting as you go. For that
you go right out into the rifles or
into the long, narrow channels fire.
quently found between large holes of
water. Large fish are there late in
the evening and early in the morn
ing feeding. Channel cats" and
crappie, mostly, are caught thus. A