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Lure Hitting the Water Scaring Fish
Delicacy in bait-casting is a thing attained only with much practice. An artificial minnow or spoon, with from seventy-five to a hundred feet of line out, is bound to hit the water with considerable force. Strange as it may seem, this as a rule does not alarm the fish. But in fishing very shallow water along-shore, or in reedy river coves where the water is not deep, care must be taken in this particular. If you succeed in starting the minnow toward the rod just before or at the instant it strikes the water, reasonable delicacy results. A great many bait-casters are careless in this regard with the natural consequence that their success is not phenomenal. If, at the end of the cast, the bait lies for an instant motionless and dead on the water, a bass whose interest has been aroused to the point of striking will usually change his mind. I have, however, several times seen bass strike a bait floating "dead" on the surface while the angler was arguing with his reel the question whether a backlash is merely a misfortune or an actual calamity. This, of course, is very exceptional; the motion of the lure is the factor that brings the strikes.
Camp, Samuel Granger. The Fine Art of Fishing. New York: Outing Pub., 1911. Print.
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