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Fishing Natural Baits for Bass
Fishing with natural bait is perhaps the most common way of taking these fish, anyway it was until in recent years. Small frogs and minnows are the most taking baits for the big fellows and a fish of any size up to five inches may be used as bait. Any black bass large enough to be taken will try to eat a five inch minnow without any hesitation whatever. For this kind of fishing a bait rod of eight or eight and one-half feet, weighing about seven or eight ounces according to quality, a quadruple casting reel of the eighty yard size, a raw silk line of small size sixty or eighty yards, and a box swivel, with a No. 2 hook on a short double gut snell is about the proper tackle. For large bass of the South, or for frog casting use hooks of about 1/0 size. If the fishing is about grass and lily pads, you can use a weedless hook. If you use frogs for bait; or artificial baits, you will want a much shorter and stiffer rod than for minnows and other natural baits, but the frog-casters are in the minority.
Brooks, Lake. The Science of Fishing. Columbus, OH: A.R. Harding, 1912. Print.
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