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Then make a very gentle cast, stopping the bait above the grass or branches that overhang the deep part of the pool, and allowing it to fall gently. Wait. Count sixty, keeping absolutely motionless. Then gently pull the worm off into the water. If there’s a trout present he’ll grab it! The bait falls into the water much more naturally than when you drop it in direct, or let it drift down. Besides, you allow everything to quiet down, and make no quick or alarming motions. There’s a trick to not getting “hung up” on grass or branches in this kind of fishing.

The natural, and the best, places to look for pike and pickerel are in coves, where lily pads, pickerel weeds, or other aquatic growths abound. At times, if they are absent from such natural feeding grounds, where perch, minnows, other small fry and frogs disport, you’ll find them along the shore line leading to the coves and bends, or in slightly deeper water where there are sunken weed beds, or patches of growth. Steelhead and Salmon One Secret of Saving ’Em After You Snag ’Em! My experience with the long shank hook, as I set forth and illustrated in a recent issue of “Hunting and Fishing,” has always been that it is more apt to tear out, through leverage, than the extremely short shank hook.

You can acquire extremely painful sunburns even though the sun is behind clouds all day. M. ) to ten minutes the first day, fifteen the second, twenty the third, twenty-five the fourth, thirty the fifth, etc. Pale, tender skins are helped to withstand sunburn by rubbing on tannic-acid jelly, coca butter, olive oil, vinegar, or one of the trade preparations sold to minimize sunburn, but none of them will keep you from burning if your skin is exposed too long. Any of the above preventatives will help alleviate discomfort from sunburn if applied liberally to the skin by patting.