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Notional Press and Radio Sports Commentatorcon getof Jlt;»•it*.violent cxplocion was tht* hallow*01I CIUulllthe ino or the ■ • who unnamed*Miami, FI*.—(away with an awl vis hill ions for | merits, yet not a Jjoakcs. It can filibuster some vital piece of legislation, without risking any appreciable howl from the voters. But occasionally a denizen of fupitol Mill will rattle off some apparently harmless piece of rhetoric, only to find it explode like an untl-persu .Such a caused in Congress receduly-elected 1 shall merciful ... proposed to ivai ______________ mails to cn-.«•lt;*, j trants in a na-tionwide fish-jf '! ing contest*3 jib “because fish-^’’s* *t ] ing is purely amatter of luck, making the whole thing a lottery.” Luck \ n- _deed! IzaaktrZ7Ston McClono ^ k ^ ? * 1 0 ,n. •► 'clutching hisfamous copy of the CompleatAngler, must have turned ovc-r inhis grave like a porpoise withacute indigestion at hearing suchan utterance.•• Of course, when you’re watting ; your line otf an open party boat ; for hours and catching nothing but ennui, the temptation is great to blame it on dumb luck if other people around you are managing to reel ’em in regularly. We were .lining just such thoughts here t when Capt. O. I.. Hawk, a former \ Florida boat cuptuin and lishing ; guide, read our minds, r “Let’s see “Htnmm, ’you Know,hardware theyour rig.” he said.thei-iimrnm, we re both using [same blood-worms. We’re both(casting into the same spot. I’m catching fish but you're not. The answerjies in your rig. Fish arethings in the ou’ve got fi lot on the string. Your hooks and worms are too close to your sinker. When the sinker moves through the water, it scares the fish away.“I’sc a long piece of So. 9 steel leader wire. Use a smaller hook, Thai big one you have enables the. . . j 1 like eating corn olf the cob.”We made the suggested changes, and when we got ready to call if a day, we headed home with n Ford full of fish.('apt. Hawk had other tips for \iif “bad luck” fishermen, if yoirra the unlucky one in a clustei of angb rs, there is probably something wrong with y ou r rig. bait or manipulation. Heel in occasionally and drop everything. Then ••land behind a fisherman who is halving success. Analyze hi* foinr, ir^pect his equipment. Keep an open *.mind and try to learn something. Most fishermen are too stubborn.. They have their pet ideas and foolishly cling to them.If Congressmen won't lifi'*?Tto*a practicing expert like faptj. Hawk when he insists theie is no such thing as utter fishermans luck, perhaps they will permit tfie testimony of Samuel Eddy, professor of zoology at the Uni'fersity of Minnesota. Says the emfnont edu-cator, “Fishermen’s hick is a negligible factor as compared with knowledge of fish feeling habits, methods of food detect 5on and seasonal changes.The question whether fish detect food by sense oY sight, taste or smell is controversial.Prof. Eddy ex pi cans that fish usually feed because they are hungry, although some strike because they are pugnacious. A male bass, for example, strikes at any moving object near it* nest, whether it is hungry or not*” *
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Princeton Bureau County Tribune
Princeton, Illinois, US
Fri, Sep 29, 1950
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