The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1918-12-15
FLOATING BASS Bug
BRINGS HOME BACON
Bronze Backers Crazy to Get
at 1t, Develops Fight
ing "Pep."
MEET MANY CONDITIONS
by DIXIE CARROLL.


man, angler and big game hunter, who
is the real daddy of the modern hair NY
THE dry fly for taking bass has re-
Gently come into high favor in some
districts where Mt times their merit has
been established.
AS n rule OF practice II Is probably
true that for consistent results the
wet fly. well sunken, will take more Ash,
whether It be bass or trout, and one is
convinced that the success that come
men have with artificial minnows and
other engines OF warfare used by bait
casters is due principally to their being
taken to the notice OF the hsh by grav-
itation.
THE season OF the year and the con-
trolling conditions must determine the
desirability of surface flies.
Some time back Walter C. 1aylor
OF St Louis used one OF my hair flies
on the upper Mississippi. having paraf-
fined the fly for n fioater.
"On the occasion of its first use he had
tiled everything he had in his we'll
stocked Kit without any results, and as
last resort used the parafhned hair fly.
With this fly he took seven fine bass in
short order. This was at Alma, and
Hank Hennlngs. the famous river guide,
WIS Win Mr.. Taylor.
1T has been said a bass will take
anything but IL there is a more ca
PRECIOUS nsh than the small mouth bass
one has never heard II named"
Surface stSikes.
No doubt the wyman hair fly should
De given sone credit for interesting
anglers IN the dry fly for small mouth
bass, and for which thought the fishing
clan can be thankful, as these fioaters
are certainly winners In enticinK the
game fns to the surface strike, which
IS the most thrilling manner In which a
fish takes a lure
recall an experience OF some three
years ago In which had eleven sur
lace strikes from husky bass in about
! 1orty-hVe minutes. and all of these
pass made swirling strike, cutting
the water with their dorsal hn and
hitting the coaxer bait with an awful
, smack.
Some OF the bass started cutting
through the water before the bait hit
the surface. and of all the fishing ex-
periences that come back TO me In the
on days I figure these rapid fire actors
'he most exciting bass that have an
s"ereu 10 the call OF my bait.
Bugs Standardized.
Claude e. Refner, a well known Cut
cago bass fisherman, ties a wonderf,l
bass bug. following the coloring of
some or the best known standard de-
signs, the most popular OF which are
the following:
Peets Favorite, white body. brown
stripes, white tail and wings; Bilg's
ZEN. orange brown body. black stripes,
brown and gray tail, brown turkey
wings; C!ark's Fancy. white body, red
TAIL and wings; Zane Grey, gray body.
striped tail and wings Carter Harrison
brown body yellow stripes. for squirrel
tail and wings; Wilders Discovery. vel
| low body. red stripes red and white
tai; Doctor Henshall brown body, red
stripes, brown tail, red and white wings,
Ihese patterns have been standardized
and are recognized as bass bugs that
VIII meet conditions OF practically any
waters, in addition to which many dit
ferent color combinations known to be
paTticuiarly attractive to Mr.. Basa re
made up.
Bill Huston OF Minnesota, Mimi, one
OF the best known bass fishermen, says
that Refs bugs have the regular flies
! skinned mile and that he never had
30 much sport In all his fishing days as
he had when watching the old bass
busting the water like a charge OF
! dynamite hitting those bugs.
| Call j. McCarty. all round champion
caster at the Newark tournament in
| 1916, ties a bass bug that is a wonder
fully good lure and his dragon fly is
| something that makes bass stand
eight up on his toes TO get a chance to
snap 1t Off the surface.
"Devil bugs" Used on Muskies.
One of the best all round bugs that
have ever used for bass and rainbow
| trout Is clever hair bug tied by Or
ley c. Tuttle. one of the keenest Usher
men Of the Fulton chain in the Adlron-
dacks.
Orley's Devil bug" as he calls IL.
| sort OF resembles a small mouse and
the lively wiggling bucktail hairs from
which 1t is tied certainly have an en-
tlcing movement in the water that any
self-respecting bass cannot resist.
What the bass really think this devil
bug is mako no guess but they have
fatal desire to give 1t walloplnG
crack like the loving kiss of a pile
| driver. This season l had Orley tie
mo a larger size for musky, and It
proved equally as good for these game
huslIies.
Used. OF course, with a spoon as a
| helper. had much keen sport with this
| bug casting for musky, and I am will
to play n stack OF whites that as the
hair fly and bugs become better known
as musky bait many of the clan
will find much pleasure from using II
for these biz roughnecks OF the watery
! terrain.
All OF which goes to show that the
| floating bass bug is here to stay and
| that 1t sure brings homo the bacon,
And at the same time II seems to make
the bass crazy to get at It. just wax
ems every bit of pep they have and
makes 'em charge 1t like bull going
for a red cloth. They take to 1t like
a duck takes TO water, and after they
get hooked IL makes 'em sore as the
dickens for falling for the bug. Prob
ably that's why they put up such a
kicking night to get loose from 1t.
BiR Bass Played High Jinka.
COLUMBUS. Ohio. Dec. IA black
bass that played high links in the Scioto
river on the rod OF c. +. Barnes. proved
later to be the monster bass that the
angler hoped for The fish was a small
mouth black bass and weighed pounds
and 10 ounces. The lure used was a
polly" plug. In the struggle the tip OF
the rod was broken.
Says IlAbbit Season Is Too Long.
ELMraE, N. Y, Dec. l4-Members OF
! the cheg11mg County Gun Club make the