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COMMENT
How to catch fish

ou have to get up
early in the morning

There are philosophers who

ree with the gravel road theo-
will not touch the question of

ry. They recommend bumpy

to catch fish. Their how to determine what makes rides in small airplanes. The
favorite meal is fish bite on a given day. further you fly and the sicker
breakfast and they eat it at We do know they bite better you are, the better the fish.

dawn. It doesn’t matter
whether you have had your
coffee and cereal. They will
start without you. Fish have
no manners.

in the rain. Because they like
to be wet, they will come
further out of the water when
the air is filled with water
droplets.

When it is very cold rain,
they will almost jump into the
boat in their eagerness to be
caught. I think it is because
they want to get close to you
and rob you of your body heat.

If you are fishing at dawn
on a cold, wet day, you are
likely to catch a fish. The
chances increase as your dis-
comfort increases.

It would seem reasonable to
quit fishing an hour after

dawn. The fish have fed and
are not likely to be hungry
again until the next morning.
Instead, you have to sit there
while the flies bite you. I
suspect this is so you can
answer “Yes” when asked if
you got a bite. I have never
heard a rational explanation.
If you are fishing for big
ones, you must first travel a
gravel road. The further you
go and the more paint chips
you lose, the more you will
enjoy catching that big fish.
There are people who disag-

Fish experience their great-
est rate of growth after they
have left the water. No longer
are they dependent on the®
dissolved oxygen in the water
— they can get it straight
from the air. They beef up
remarkably in the time it
takes to recount the fight.
This explains the phenomen-
on of the five pound fish he
caught yesterday weighing

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By JOAN MYLES

eight pounds today. The
funny thing about this weight
gain is that it can’t be mea- 2
sured on ordinary scales.
Many a time I have wished
to sit on a dock in the after-
noon sun, mulling over these
amazing facts and fishing.
But it isn’t possible to fishy
from a padded chair. My hus-
band says so. He’s a fishe
man, and fishermen don’t liz

fight back

Fish are picky eaters. When
you are serving up worms,
they only eat flies. If you are
using pink hoochies, they only
like green that day. When you
have tied on every lure in
your tackle box and not
caught any fish, the only way
to find out what they are
feeding on is by examining the
stomach contents ofa fish. To
do that, you have to catch one

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E mean” says one Fort Richey
— victim. “They keep after you.
By ARTHUR BLACK They get ugly and want to bite
people”.
My final animal horror sto-
ry occurred right here in Can-
ada — in Fairview, Alberta as B
a matter of fact, where Don- &
ald Zenert decided to climb a &
fence into a deer enclosure to &
snap close-ups of some white- &
tailed does.
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the white-tailed buck. e
Next thing Zenert knew, he &
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through my heart was to grab
them and hang on.” -
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hours. He might still be there
if the owner of the farm
hadn’t rescued him by shoot- i
ing the buck. :
Big deal, you say. Three
unconnected stories, you say.
Well, maybe. But I've been —
having nightmares about that &
Hitchcock movie, The Birds &
recently.
And there was that owl @
hooting in the shopping mall.
All I can say is, if animals
do take over the world, I trust
the ants will put in a good
word for me. 2
They better, after all the®
picnics I took them on.

good and to grab the captain’s
cabin on Spaceship Earth. Evy-
er since we put ourselves in
charge of the planet the way
we've treated our fellow te-
nants has been something
less than charitable.

When white men first came
to this continent, the skies
were blackened by migrating
passenger pigeons each year.
You can’t find a single one
now. We slaughtered the
beaver and decimated the buf-
falo herds. We obliterated the
Plains Grizzly and reduced
the once common eastern
mountain lion to little more
than a ghostly rumor.

Mind you, we haven't al-
ways killed our colleagues
outright. Sometimes we set-
tled for simple animal humili-
ation. Tigers pacing in cages,
elephants balancing on balls.

sate for his undersized mus-
culature, it’s been a lopsided
battle, but folks... I think the
tide may be shifting. Someth-
ing tells the Big Referee in the
Sky is about to start marking
his scorecard in favor of the,
um, underdogs.

Evidence? Purely circum-
stantial, so far. But read these
three stories that appeared in
the papers recently.

The first tale tells the plight
of Troy Brewer, delivery boy
for Domino’s Pizza in Balch
Springs, Texas. Troys no
greenhorn in the pizza deli-
very game. He’s handled
drunks, deadbeats and no-
shows.

But he draws the line at
hold-up amphibians.

Late one Tuesday night,
two rough-looking customers
cornered Troy on a dark
street. “Don’t move” growled
one as he drew his weapon
from under his coat, “or yer
gonna git bit.” And there Troy
was, nose to beak with a
snapping turtle. “A big, huge,
ugly one!” recalls Troy. “That
sucker was gonna bite me!”
The turtle-armed men es-
caped with about $50.

Scary, but not as scary as
the story out of Fort Richey,
Florida, where an outlaw

Bears in clown hats waltzing
to Strauss.

And all the while, the ani-
mals endured, with scarcely a
cheep or a hiss or a bellow of
protest. Oh, once in a while a
Great White picks off a surfer,
a tiger snags a Bengali villag-
er or a Spanish toro outfoxes a
matador and pins him to the
plaza sand — but tally those
paltry victories against, say,
the number of Big Macs sold
each day.

No contest.

Ever since man began using
his oversized brain to compen-