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texas olly VERN SEIHTOR • * NOTE: Gamp.Harden I. II, Ntirkles wrote the following comments of a black bass talking to » game warden. You'll find this interesting. Between the lines there’s good advice for fishermen.WELL. W\KDfN. I'm a black«•!mtothh;ft,bass. And, as you can sec,noolir ai a i ai nlt; th blt; ftlittle fellow,I guess I must weigh at least 10 pounds. These fishermen who see me, once in a while, probably go back to town' and tell tall tales about the 15 to 20 pounder they discovered.I live here under this old cedar stump and have lived here ever since the lake came up. I’ll tell you. I'm glad to see the water in old Medina again. It was pretty'd rough when the lake was so low IT W AS easy enough to get food then, becauslt; the shad were pretty I thick. All you had to do was run* into a school and catch all you i wanted. But there was no go»d * place to live. So I was always on ; the move. But all that is chang- d ;Now I can just lie here under i this old stump and watch until a \ perch or minnow comes by, then rush out and get him.It’s only a few feet out to that 1 rock ledge where the bottom drops ( off to deep water. That’s where I 1 go when the w ater gets too hot j« I get a kick out of watching ' the fishermen. Every one is dif ' ferent, oven though each uses the * same old lures. iYOtJ TAKE OLD Temperature j i Tim. He comes by here about lt;once a week in that old green j boat of his and makes an awful,; fuss about taking the temperature'* of the water.I «He’s right, you know. We fish do have certain likes and dislikes, ; just as humans do. when it comes! to temperature. But if he'd spend I the timlt;- fishing, that he does fool-;] ing with that thermometer, he'd catch more fish.Not me. of com . . He’s not goocl enough to fool me not in a thousand years—but he’ll catch a lot of those three and four pound youngsters.INCIDENTALLY. THERE'S one good fisherman who comes around here ever’ once in a while. I don't trust that guy. He knows someone’s living under this old stump, and he cuts his motor off way up the line anti sneaks up here with a paddle. Boy. is that guy good witn a paddle.Sometimes the first clue that 1 get that he’s In the area is when his plug hits the water. His only fault is that hlt;'s not a good caster, jf he could east real good and would sneak up lik. that and drop a lure real easy, right on top of me, I might hit it before 1 realized what I was doing Oh. I’ll tell you.I have to be car- ful OLD l()P Water Tom worries me. Now there’s a gixtd caster. He fishes with nothing but a chug-gar. Even though I know he’s in the aria, when he drops that black chuggar right on my nose and lets it stay there motionless for a while. I really have to hold myself to keep from just smashing that thing whenever he twitches it.I gues: I-know’ just about every kind of lure there is. If a new one comes out. I ll see it pretty soon because old Changeable Charley w ill be out hi re throwing it at me He almost caught me last year. Would have, too, if he hadn't been (areless.He threw a funny-shaped contraption in here early one morb-ng and woke me up. I was in a ul mood anyway, so I just de-« idt d to sm.eh that thing. Didn’t ■ee that monofilament line, cause j,c had it tied directly to that * lure.MAN. WAS I surprised when he et that hook I made one hard i un and broke his line where it was frayed a bit near the lure.I’m sure thankful he was one of 'those guys who never breaks off t.he last foot or two of his line when he’s been fishing awhile. 1 jumped right near his Ixiat and threw that fool thing out and I'll bet they heard him all the way to Seek at z.
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Fort Stockton Pioneer
Fort Stockton, Texas, US
Thu, Feb 26, 1959
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