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The fighting tactics of the small mouthed bass are characteristic. He seldom sulks but keeps on the move when hooked. Nearly always he leaps at least once and usually again and again. His leap is different from that of the brown trout (fario) or the rainbow trout (irideus), the brook trout never leaping on a slack line except on the covers of magazines. These two trouts merely break water and turn over but the bass " stands on his tail" and, having no neck with which to shake his head, he shakes his whole body — a strategic move that often, very often, ends in disaster to the angler's tackle. Failing to shake out the hook by leaping and shaking, he is quick to take advantage of any near-by snag, around which he will quickly wrap the line or leader or saw it off on any jagged rock or debris he can find. Another of his |
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