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vo iiranglers, there is probably something wrong with your rig. bait or manipulation. Heel in occaKiormlly and drop everything. Then 'land behind a fisherman who is hawing sucee'S. Analyze hi* foiur, inspectpmen^ National rress oncJ radio bport: commentatorMiami, Fla.—Congress can get I not the dumbest things in the away with an awful lot. It can tax world, you know. You’ve got a lot u* billions for peacetime arma-1 of hardware there on the string.is aie tooWhen the the water.i niless p‘C (it rhet-dc* like an ,was of.., proposed to l*ai the use of the mails to entrants in a nationwide fi'h-ing contest “because fishing is purely a matter of luck, making the whole thing u lottery.”I. u c k indeed! I zaakr,„ Ston McClono ^ * 1 0 n. *► ™ * clutching hisfamous copy of the ConipleatAngler, must have turned over inhis grave like a porpoise withacute indigestion at hearing suchan utterance.»• Of course, when you’re wattingr your line otf an open party boatfor hours and catching nothingI but ennui, the temptation is great to blame it on dumb luck if other I people around you are managing to reel ’em in regularly. We were lining just such thoughts here {when Capt. O. L. Hawk, a former * Florida boat captain and fishing , guide, read our minds, r “Let’s ee your rig.” lie said. i“Hmmm, we’re both using the fsame blood-worms. We’re both i casting into the same spot. I'm 1 catching fish but you're not. The f answer lies in your rig. Fish are I“Use a long piece of No. 9 steel leader wire. Use a smaller hook.*kings to nibble the bait . . . jus! like eating corn off the cob ”We made the suggested changes, and when we got ready to call ij a day, we headed home with « ford full of fish.orcling to them.If Congressmen won’t lis'jentoa practicing expert like Capti Hawk when he insists there is ao such thing as utter fishermans luck, perhaps they will permit ‘fie testimony of Samuel Eddy, professor of zoology at the Uni\p»rsity of Minnesota. Says the eminent educator, Fishermen's Iuck is a negligible factor as compared with knowledge of fish fee Jing habits, methods of food detectfion and seasonal changes.The question whether fish detect food by sense oV sight, tasto or smell is controveiKial.Prof. Eddy explains 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 iu nest, whether it is hungry or nou” *
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Princeton Bureau County Tribune
Princeton, Illinois, US
Fri, Sep 29, 1950
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