The sun., 1919-05-11
BLACK BASS SEASON y
NOW DRAWING NEAR
Open Time for the Bronze IN >
Backer Begins in Jersey June.
Is; New York, Next Day.
SMALL-MOUTH VS.. TROUT
Acrobatic Abilities Of Stream a,
Raised Fish Compared With
Rsinbows and Browns.
NJ DIXIE CARROLL.

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NJ DIXIE CARROLL. - y,
The trout season is open everywhsre-Te
ana soon fishing for black bass will be.o
gin. The FIRST opening day for blacks :
bass In New Jersey and Vermont Is on n
June 10. On June 16 the season opens ",
In New York State. June FL Is the
opening day for Massachusetts, andss
July for New Hampshire, Pennsyl- ~
vania and Connecticut. n.
There Is one little subject in the fish ~
ing game that will bring an argument u
quicker than any other angle Of the, <,
sport and that Ia the relative game =,
ness Of the bronxe-baclsed warrior, the sy5
small-mouth bass and the fast-hghtins ~
trout family. >"
To start a real family row, one or ~ =
those sociable friendly Affairs. one needs y
to but open up on either side OF the
question among bunch Of the boys 4
who answer the lure of lake and stream. ~
Things Immediately perk up and the ..
gang divides into two groups with their Z
shootin' irons we'll to the front. And ~
by their favorite fighting game fish each ~
Win swear by all the gods Of the out-sh
doors-for. do they not tingle with joy;f.
at memories OF water battles OF the past ~
In which the game I'm they champion 4.
did his keenest to stay sovereign OF his "A
homo waters? IN
BASS Puts UP Gamest Fight.
During the past year or 80 many let. y
tiers have como IN with the query. u
which do you consider the gamer, the af
bass or the trout?" and right this day y,
two letters ambled In from the same, .:
city with the same old stuff Probably, Y
the writer's, TX. S. N" and IF. d." have
had an argument on this endless dis
v,t,Na ov.A o.
sonal opinion. based on my own exAt'
perierces with the game fms. Polish up'c.
your pens. boys :"
The small-mouth bass caught with the n
fiyrod in a running stream I consider ~
puts UP the earnest fight OF the watendI
warriors. Following the game oido
bronze hacker close. indeed, very close 4,
| comes the rainbow trout. then the brown !
| trout. and. finally, tho brook trout. {:
The small-mouth puts up a more scien- g
tihc fight than the trout. and he makes, :,
use Of more tricks in his effort to slip -
lthe hook. He 10 a greater leaper than q
any Of the trout, which makes him J
more spectacular fighter. :.
have had n hooked small-mouth bass
leap eight times in fact. almost every G.
| smAll-mouth have hooked has leaped q
| at least once. have had a rainbow,
| trout leap I'VE times, and the brown 2
trout leap four times, while the greats.
| the speckled beauty In two times. and 81
that to a little ten-incher. n
The general getaway EFFORT ~ the
ppeckled trout In down and alonR back Il
and forth In deeper water. without much II
effort to clear the surface II ia in tha,,i
rare cases that the speckled trout makes q
the up-in-the-air leap. ..,,e.
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Stream Raised Fish Acrobatis. :.
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