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idio Sports Commentatornot the dumbest things in the world, you know. You’ve got a lot of hardware there 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. »“Use a long piece of NTo. 0 steel leader wire* Use a smaller hook. That hig one you have enables thlt;* kings to nibble the bait . . . just like eating corn off the cob.” jWe made the suggested changes, and when we got ready to call if a day, we headed home with * Ford full of fish. \t'apt. Hawk had other tips for the I “bad luck” fishermen. “If you*re the unlucky one in a elustei or anglers, there is probably something wrong with your rig, bait or manipulation. Reel in occasionally and drop everything. Then sttand behind a fisherman who is hawing succo'S. Analyze his foinr, inspect his equipment. Keep an open nnind and try to learn something. 'Most fishermen are too stubborn.. They have their pet ideas and foolishly cling to them. 1;If Congressmen won’t lis**n~toa practicing expert like CapU Hawk when he insists there is ao such thing as utter fishermans luck, perhaps they will permit ‘jhe testimony of Samuel Eddy, professor of zoology at the Uni\persity of Minnesota. Says the eminent educator. “Fishermen’s luci is a negligible factor as compared with knowledge of fish feeding habits, methods of food detect Son and seasonal changes. /The question whether fish detect food by sense oV sight, taste or smell is eontroveisial.Prof. Eddy explains that fiah usually feed because, they are hun-gry, although some strike because they are pugnacious. A male bass, for example, strike at any moving object near its. 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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