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National Press and Radio Sports Commentatort u peep out of JotMiami, Fla.—Caway with an awf u* billions for |lt;Incuts, yetJjoakcs. It can filibuster s*,I iiipii lntrialti•inn l i l-r11'' miiiivui ii.'rvii»*f any appreciable how! from the voters. But occasionally a denizen of Capitol Hill will rattle otf some apparently harmless piece of rhetoric. only to find it explode like an anti-personnel mine.Such a violent explosion was caused in the hallowed hulls of ( ongress recently when one of the duly-elected legislators . . . who bhitll mercifully remain unnamed ... proposed to i»ai1 IIIV U.'S »mails t ci en-trants ina na-tion widefifth-ing c oiltest“becausefi«h-u»K is mil*ely aJ.JUCK,makingthewhole thiing alottery.L u c k\ n -deed! Iz a a k».«■ aron Mclione , , :i 1 0 n. » ‘clutching hisfamous copy of the Compleat Angler, must have turned over in his grave like a porpoise with acute indigestion at hearing such an utterance.*• Of course, when you’re watting } your line off an open party boat ! for hours and catching nothing | but ennui, the temptation is great J to blame it on dumb luck if other I people around you are managing to reel Vm in regularly. We were h.#. ing just such thoughts here * when Capt. 0. L. Hawk, a former 4 Florida boat captain and fishing guide, read our minds, p “Let’s see your iig,” he said. t*'Hmrnm, we’re both using the fsame blood-worras. We're both(casting into the same spot. I’m catching fish but you’re not. The answer^lies in your l ig. Fish arenot the dumbest things in the world, you know. You’ve got a Jot of hardware there on the string. Your hooks and worms arc too close to your sinker. U hen the sinker moves through the water, it scares the fish away.“Use a long piece of So. 9 steel leader wire. Use a smaller hook. That big one you have enables the kings to nibble the bait . . . jus! like euting corn off the cob.’We made the suggested changes, and when we got ready to call if a day, we headed home with it Ford full of fish.Capt. Hawk hail other tips for the “had luck” fishermen. “If you'ra the unlucky one in a i «.fangh rs, there is probably something wrong with your rig. bait or manipulation. Reel in occasionally and drop everything. Then stand behind a fisherman who is luuving success. Analyze hi* foim, inspect 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 1 is'gen to*a practicing expert like CapU Hawk when he insists there is ao such thing as utter fisherman?* luck, perhaps they will permit tg\e testimony of Samuel Eddy, professor of zoology at the Unhfersity of Minnesota. Says the eminent educator, Fishermen’s luck is a negligible factor as compared with knowledge of fish feeding habits, methods of food detectfion and seasonal changes.The question whether fish detect food by sense oV sight, taste or smell is controversial.Prof. Eddy cxphdns that fish usually feed because they are hun-giy, although some strike because t hey are pugnacious. A male bass, for example, strikes at any moving object near it* nest, whether it is hungry or not*” * i
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Princeton Bureau County Tribune
Princeton, Illinois, US
Fri, Sep 29, 1950
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