The Washington times., 1923-01-28
PLANT A BASS
CAMP Align TO
GET STARTED
Local Anglers Associations to
Give United Support il the
1epIenishing 81 Waters.
" r. Al. ANGLER,

BY Il. "A. ANt1Alzlk.
I'm HE Potomac Anglers Assoc
citation, 4 goodly number
Of whose members are
| identified with the Washington
Chapter Of the lzaak Walton
League Of America, have adopted
the '.Plant q Bass" movement. AT
the regular monthly meeting Of
the anglers held last week every
member present pledged his sup
port to the undertaking.
Paul Mckinney, the father of
1.-THE motion, told the membership
that he hoped to have satisfactory
arrangements made with the Bti-
Ireau of Fisheries, whereby mem
hers and those interested iii angling
could secure young bass Cor plant
ing purposes. s
The idea Of the whole plan Is
simply this, the angler takes his
bait bucket or cOntainer, secures
from twenty to forty FRY or finger
llings and deposits them il some
nearby body Of water. There are
hundreds Of streams suitable for
Iplanting In and around the Dis
trict that are within q short dis
lance by trolley or automobile.
So lets stop laimenting the won
derfuI fishing in the years gone
BY and plant today for tomorrow.
Make the fishleas streams fishable
BY adopting the slogan Plant 3
Bass. =
ORIGIN or MOVEMENT.
/ The PLANT Bass movement
was originated NOT 90 many months
Iago by b. T.. wilder, Of Chicago.
win II. Dig. the founder Of the
IzaAk Walton League Of America
land editor Of the Defender Of Amer
Iica's Out-of.Doors, has this to say
lOf Wilder and his Plant q Bass
am convinced that this Plant
| d Bass campaign Of Mr.. Wilder's
viii accomplish spectacular
amount OF good B. II Wilder ii
one Of the best Informed anglers
ID America, with both an ardent
desire to improve fishing conditions
and practicable and feasible.
method of doing II.
plant q Bass win become q
slogan familiar to anglers from
coast to coast. Al little creek ~
quarter of d mile from my house
| III the country will be the scene
Eof my first application Of Mr.:
Wilder.s plan. It Is my hope that
/ our boys and girls win erthusi.
astically join in this work as well
as the entire brotherhood OF Amer
lean sportsmen. Come on, boys
PLANT IA BASS and put the
fish; in fishing.
PLANT A BASS.
During the past year Mr.. Wilder
has received hundreds Of letters
from black bass anglers. most Of
them bewailing the rapidly vans
fishing fish. He says.
sEdany expressed hope that bass
would soon BE- planted BY their
angling clubs Or BY their State
Officials, q very few stated that
attempts were being made to be-
gin such planting. And there were
five letters from anglers who had
not been content to let George do;
it, and who, acting as individuals.
had planted bass.
Inquiry disclosed various rea-
sons for the apathy Of the others.
Some believed stocking to be ex-i
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be attempted save by large clubs or
by the State. Some were deferred
by lack Of information: they be-
lieved great technical knowledge
essential to success, they did not
know where bass fry or fingerlings
might be obtained. So, with the
exception Of the five, individual
effort was not made. But IL those
five had been five thousand! Oh,
boy!
wen, let's have it that way.
Let's start q PLANT Bass move
ment, and, acting as individuals IL
necessary, actually plant bass in
our home waters.
Come on! Let's go! Let each
man ask himself these questions:
How many, bass have you taken
in your years of fishing? How
many have you planted? Don't
you owe few fingerlings to the
world OF sport? If those who must
answer yes to the final question
join the movement its success il
assured: instead of five. there will
be five thousand men at work.
by common consent, the fisher
man who can point to gigantic
bass and say: I caught that fell
low is an angler. II he can truth
fully add that the fish was taken
on light tackle, he is sportsman.
Then what rating must the angling
world accord the man who can
say:
"'I planted that bass?'"
STOCKING.
Young fish should never be
planted in open water or in the
main stream, for if not swallowed
by large fish they win eventually
succumb to polluted water. They
should always be planted in the
upper reaches where the water is
comparatively pure, and where 1t
Is quite shallow and weedy; or,
preferably. in small tributary.
among water plants where food
is abundant. and where the water
Is too shallow to be frequented by
the many enomies of the young
fish.
STAMP OF APPROVAL.
Archibald Rutledge. well known
writer, says in q recent issue OF
the Izaak Walton Monthly League:
This Plant q Bass campaign is |
one of these eminently sane ideas
In conservation which should have
the active support Of every lover of
Americas outdoors. / remember
hearing Senator Ben Tillman say
that the civil war had ruined the
South because it had taken all the