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iHBlftTIt-V COl’NTXANS UK* TO FISH! *-.*•. « »pon ir* the majority of Hopi.! s' ,e sni v. ’ r s' an County folks no*t intervair-c’h iBa»«o*ll’ Basketball’ Maybe out z*z g-lt;*« » “°*t popular sport u tottingUr oc.jef oo tb* fact that to date th:»c*r a ' :a. of 5-SflO fUZung Ueeoae* have bern murd fr't Su* Morrta, our popular and efficient ci-'-’ •y court Clark, talla us that of that number ro mure than M or 40 of thaat represent out-of state or trip lkenaaa. Evan the large number of 5 350 does not reprraeM tha toul number here who participate In this wholesome sport for folJu over 65 are not required to buy a UcenseThen lei s talk fishing today.We heard about lb* Hick Jim Barker and Johnny Jane* had on tha fourth at Kan tacky Lake. These two Hopkinsville fishermen ran into the striper* at about T o’clock in the evening and befora dark had caught 80, » of which they kept. Some of the beaa weighed 2W pounds. They were using a Brown’a bomber with rubber shad, which HopkHnrUla made belt aeems to be quite effective.Maybe we can run into the itripen, too, we thought, so we tried our luck et the lake from 4 until nearly dark Wednesday afternoon We caught nothing. Neither did such expert fishermen as Howard Lebkuecher, Lends Adams and young Walker Moseley, who were in another bcSi! Nor did anybody else we saw. The lake was too rough, apparently. It also was too rough yesterday.aWe learned from Fisherman's One Stop that within the past week John Giles and R. M. Tandy caught 22 stripers up to two-pound size on artificial bait, and that Bill King landed 10 that weighed up to 2W pounds while using minnows.Mr. and Mrs. Ridley Ewing, fishing with rubber shad, caught 17 stripers that weighed from one to two pounds, Ed Greenfield caught 10 big ones on a Brown's bomber with rubber shad (all taken in one “jump’’; and Dr. J. H. Young, local Negro dentist, caught an even dozen averaging a pound.No doubt there are many others who have had dandy luck, but the above are all we know about. There probably are far more people like us who came back empty handed. Even such an expert as la Mrs. Claude M. Brown doesn't always have luck. Encouraged over the Baker-Jones catch, the Browns and many other local fishermen went to the lake the following day, but the stripers failed to jump.Even at Reelfoot a couple of weeks ago the Browns failed to connect. There the bass seemed to be biting only In open water around moss beds, and the wind simply was too high for open water casting. According to the Reelfoot guides the bass took practically nothing In June except the bass buzzer (mgde by the Browns incidentally), which, of course, pleased these Hopkinsville folks very much. It was explained that during the past 30 days or-so the Reelfoot bass have been taking “pin minnows early In the mornings, and the Brown-made buzzer has a surface action like a bunch of the little minnows. Therefore the demand for this particular bait there has been so great that the stores sold out and none were available.*lt;•The Brown family did get into the stripers at Kentucky Lake the other day, but unfortunately Mrs. Brown got a big catfish on the hook. She failed to land it and the commotion frightened the stripers away. Earlier in the season she did land a big cat, however ... an eight-pound one . . . while pole fishing for crapple with minnows. Mrs. Brown, who naturally is an artificial bait fisherman, quickly explained that all of her minnow and pole fishing is confined to a couple of weeks when the crappie are biting. Incidentally the crappie stopped biting when the catfish was caught.Bill Ndll Jr., genial manager of Kentucky Lake State Park Docks, has issued a glowing report on fishing, but we stlU say that what investigation we have made shows that where one person reports splendid luck there are a dozen or more who, like us, usually come back empty handed. We take most fishing reports with a grain of salt.*
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Kentucky New Era
Hopkinsville, Kentucky, US
Fri, Jul 10, 1953
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