The sun., 1919-06-08
EYE OF FISH MOST
FASCINATING BAIT
Iris Lures Game Fish Out of
the Depths; Worm Under
Leaf Tempting.
so ROD EXPERTS TESTIFY
Close in Shore Where There Is
Shade Good Place to Get
Bass at Midday.
so ROD EXPERTS TESTIFY

had found effective and unusual incl |
dents they had met with in fishing. Also
It led to telling yarns. The discussion |
was brought about by James s, Petit, !
president of the Anglers Club OF New |
York. remarkins that the other day in |
visiting refriseratins plant he had |
come across carcssses OF reindeer, which |
are being introduced In the New York |
market and he asked one of the men In |
charge IL they would cut for him some |
hair of the bucktail. -sE
Shortly after this he received threeI
envelopes of the hair of reindeer ana mt
night he has made bucktail flies tied
with orange silk, tipped of with white |
feather. The bucktail files are three or
four inches long, and should they not
work this season when he tries them
out on his fly rod. he will add q small
sinker and cast them with a\bait casting
rod. incidentally Mr.. Petit has had
success with bucktail flies before but not
made from the tail of reindeer.
IT remember he said. ''once fishing
Moose River. which flows into Moose
head Lake. and making an artificial quin
and with it taking sh-pound land
locked salmon"
YES" remarked DR.. +. g. Fulton. 81
once fished the stream for q, month and
caught only an eel Two queer expert
ences come to mind. Once when we
could not make fish rise. we finally, after
much perseverance,, got one. Then we
squeezed the eye out. so rs not to lnjure
the iris in any way. put II delicately on
the hook and it was amazing how fish
would come out of tho depths to get that
eve.
Worn Under LILY Leaf Tempts.
Another time recall. none OF us
could get anything like the catches OF
fish that one man got. This fellow could
get them anytime So l watched him
I determined to find out his qnethod. 7
found that what he did was to put a
worm under pond lily leaf and offer
them that. 1t was so tempting he could
get bite when nobody else could"
81 had similar experience, about the
eyes of fish, added John s. Schwinn.
I've we're using fresh water herring and
We could not get a fish to rise. Sud
denly we saw fish rise and pluck out the
eyes. That tip gave us the information
We sought.
~ was using frogs for black bass"
Mr.. Schwinn continued. 81 got strike
and the fish didn't make much fuss I'M
Ill I got him close to the boat when he
made all sorts of commotion and had
real fight on my hands. When / landed
the 3 II FOUNDER fish and took out the
hook. which was far down. noticed the
tail of another fish. What had hap
pened was this: An eight-inch fish took
my frog and then the. 3H FOUNDER took
tho eight-inch black bass"
II had like experience. remarked
DR.. Fulton. 81 had a little black bass
take my minnow and IN the way in a
big Tickerel grabbed the black, bass and
I brought. in three fish at once"
Getting Baas at Midday.
ct recall once fishing in the Lower
earahac." continued Mr.. Petit, land we
could do nothing that day on a bait rod.
So I tried a brown hackle fly with
spinner close to shore near the Saranac
Inn and strange as II may seem ] got
7pound pike. l was using a No. king
fisher line at the time and had to handle
the tackle most delicately and when the
guide saw the fish. he snapped the line
with his fingers and then went around
telling everybody on what a slender line
I had taken the fish with and then Civ
ing them a sample of the line to break.
Another time one Of the guides of the
Lower Saranac insisted that you could
not take black bass in the middle of the
day, when the sun was shining He took
me out to where the rocks we're in the
middle OF the lake and got lake trout
while trolling. OF az pounds.
~ don't want any more OF this troll
ing 1 said. I want some real fishing
Get me a shady place where 1 can cast
for bass
"I'n take you to the best fishing
grounds for bass in the lake. he said.
We'll. flshed there for half an hour
and could not get anything. 4 don't be-
lieve they will rise here I said to the
guide. Get me ashore where there is
shade
"IIe rowed in close to shore where
there was some shade. / cast toward
shore and got 2-pound bass. ] am
convinced that bass will rise in the shade
alongside the rocks, even in midday"
concluded Mr.. Petit.
Incidentally Mr.. Petit has taken In
Round Lake, which is between Upper
and Lower Saranac Lakes. SO black bass
with a ~ in two days fishing
A New Married Stove Pipe.
THE yarn 1 am about to tell" began
Robert III. CorsOn, lis true one"
"Jud was a famous character In north
ern Warren County, on the borderland
between civilization and the wilderness.
Hunter, trapper, fisherman. guide, line
man on the little local telephone system,
dcntist-that Is 10 say he could yank
any tooth lie could get hold OF with his
wire cutting pliers, hotel keeper %,
farmer and woodsman. Garrulous and
chock full of picturesque stories. he
sometimes made his opportunities for
telling them.
zone fail we were packing up for home
after very successful deer hunt, 1t
was Juds duty and pleasure TO put the
r'hes tenderly inro their cases and strap
each fellows rods to them for the jour
ney. He came into the office with his
arms full OF them and one OF the boys
asked II he'd creased them.
Creased EN- he exclaimed In a
highly offended tone Them ar guns f.
gresseder'n a moo married stove pipe
"A new married stove pipe! What's
that? ~
Dunno what a moo married stove
pipe is. hey? Wall. I'll list tell you fell
lers sost yen know suthin'.
"'Ye see, up here In this country wen
Teller gifts A-sinellin' around one OF
ahead an he builds a-cabin an puts up
the stove. lit happens to be In the
sprlngtlme wen the weather's warm. they
build an aout-door kitchin SOS t'do the
cookin' where it's cool IS
Am he gifts a chunk o'deer's taller
an soaks that there ole stove pipe SOS
she wunt rust thru tn summer. Men
wen fall comes on an tn fust snow.
they builds fire In the stove. Pipe gifts
not an the taller smokes; pipe gifts hot
ter an tn smoke nils the cabin. Pipe
gits red hot an HE'LL How she does