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Editor Tuttle's Fishing, a tuna-sized condensation of the whale-sized Fisherman's Encyclopedia, will not make the fish's lot any easier. But it should be as welcome to the nation's fishermen as a fast riffle on a mountain stream. Like command-level planners marking out a country for conquest, the 30 fly-wise, smooth-casting experts who helped to put Fishing together have methodically divided up their subject under such topics as "Game Fishes," "Where To Fish," and "When and How to Fish"-by fly-casting, trolling or spinning; in lakes, offshore...
Procedure: pick a spot in a stream or lake and lower a pail of chopped vegetables to it every day for a week. By that time the carp, who are mainly vegetarians, should be using that spot for a feeding ground. A ball of half-baked dough or a piece of half-boiled vegetable is good for bait. Cast it near the feeding ground, give it a foot of slack line, "set" the hook as soon as the outsmarted carp starts moving away. If he is played away from his feeding ground, "other carp will not be frightened...
...drove jeeps along the sandy river flats to ferrying points on the Han River several miles upstream from the shattered bridge. There beetle-like rowboats jammed to the gunwales with refugees were plying back & forth across the broad, shallow stream...
...years an unvarying stream of 3,000,000 people passed annually by his cage. He was seldom sick, almost never troublesome. But early this month Keeper Robinson noted that Bushman seemed listless. One day, a fortnight ago, the big gorilla toppled over and lay sprawled and inert on the floor...
...invasion troops on Dday. More than one old tournament hand had already come to grief along the tight, twisting fairways of the rugged Merion Golf Club course on the Main Line west of Philadelphia. A sample of the hazards ahead was the score-killing 11th hole, where a stream curls in front of the ice-slick green, curls back around the other side to swallow up any approach that overshoots the flag...