The sun., 1919-07-13
BASS RISE TO BUGS
IN GREENWOOD LAKE
Floating Fly With Cork Body
Lures Fish Best Between
Sunset and Dark.
NO TWITCHING NECESSARY
New Bait in Which White Pre-
dominates Good to Use
at Night.
NO TwITCHING NECESSARY
BY SILENT SAM.

May an old Rod and Gunite be par
doned for suggesting that this undoubt-
eddy popular feature Of an undoubtedly
popular newspaper might be improved
by the elimination of petty chickering's
that concern no one but the two or three
directly involved, and the giving over
of that wasted space to the building OF
a clearing house for the exchange OF
practical ideas and Information?
Last summer I submitted a query
about the new floating bass flies with
cork bodies popularity known as bass
bugs" I had Just taken up this form
of fishing, and while I found that the
small mouth bass were sufficiently in-\
terested to rise I could get no response
from the big mouth bass, although tho
two varieties are about equally plenti-
full in Greenwood Lake.
l wanted to know II any OF the read
ers Of this column could enlghten me.
but at that time some personal squabh'e
was ont may have concerned the
color OF Chin Tackles whiskers, or an
imputation that Bill Crockett was gifted
with greater snoring power than TaIna-
rack-at any rate there was no response
to my perfectly legitimate appeal for the
Information I sought, and which would
undoubtedly have been of value to
others also.
And now, after a year, am answer
ing my own query. assuming from the
emphatic silence my question called
! forth that others may he as much as
in the dark concerning the bass bugs as
I was year ago.
When not using Mug 7 have this
year been devotng most Of my time 10
| these alleged flies. and have taken both
varieties of the BASES, the big mouth
over the muddy bottomed weed grown
arms of the lake. and the small mouth
over their natural feeding grounds IN
| the clearer water.
Using my nine and a half foot split
bamboo trout rod with tapered line ]
| found I was losing at least half the
rises, besides I realized that II was too
| heavy work for a trout rod. The rod
was too plant to enable me to drife
| home the hook striking simultaneously
with the rise.
| saw before It was too late that Id
wanted to preserve that particular rod
| for trout streams l must not abuse II
with such heavy casting; and here is
| tip of which other anglers may avail
| themselves in the experimental stage.
| Use n rod not only stiff enough to
| stand the strain, but one with sufficient
| backbone to set the hook firmly with the
strike I find steel rod answers the
| purnoSe very well.
Results Between Sunset and Dark.
| I have had my best success between
sunset and dark, and even after dark. by
| using one OF the bugs in which white
| predominates l have taken quite a few.
| With no wind and an absolutely calm
surface the conditions are best. Toward
| dark after the bug has dropped gently
on the water I find 1t unnecessary to
| give il motion by twitchinC the rod. 1
| permit II to lie where 1t has fallen for
from half n minute to a minute before
| lifting 1t for another cast In the dusk
4 the rise is apt to come at any time.
| have read several magazine articles
touting these floating bass bugs. but have
| run across nothing in the way OF In
struction by which those just taking up
the game might profit, nothing of tech
meal nature paving the way to the sue
cessful use of .this comparatively new
| lure
Even the expert fly caster Will md
this quite different procedure, and l
| trust these few hints from one who Is
himself a tyro with the bug may be as
| welcome to others as they would have
been to me a year ago.