What is the real allure of antiques? On the surface, it is simple to find a rational explanation for those people that prefer to purchase an antique chest, for example. You kind of know without thinking why someone would rather go to a modern outlet or furniture store to buy a chest of drawers; even though the antique chest is…well…antique, it is still functional. You can fold your clean undershirts and keep them there. The thing fits in with the modern, factory-built furniture already in the house.
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A rule chosen and accepted from among pike fishing tips is that fish of the pike family — ranging all the way from the chain pickerel to the muskie — are lovers of weed beds. That certainly is true, but the angler who seeks pike only in the weeds will be missing a lot of opportunities.
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Using the services of a good fishing guide is advisable for someone who wants to learn quickly the basics of catching a certain species of fish as well as learning the water where you plan to do a lot of fishing for your new quarry. However, if you want to learn from the guide, instead of just "sitting back and enjoying the ride", you need to take the attitude of student instead of casual fisherman. View the guide as a skilled craftsman that you paid to observe and learn from.
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Once the frosts of September have cooled the waters of streams and lakes, bass are inclined to move out of the deep holes in which they have spent the warm months and to feed actively in shoreline shallows and on reefs until the coming of winter.
A few bass, however, still may be found around the spring-holes and at the mouths of tributary streams where they have spent the summer.
The fall is a fine time to fish for bass, for the fish are fattening themselves for the winter period of inactivity and take lures and baits avidly. Incidentally, some fine sport may be had with bassbugs and other surface lures in the middle of the day, when the sun warms the water.
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