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Contents: Special Bass Section – The South’s Booming New Bass; The White Bass-Striper Hybrid (A scrappy new game fish is responsible for a real surge in Southern angling fever); Face-To-Face With Roland Martin On Bass (The first in a series of timely interviews with knowledgeable and interesting outdoorsmen – all experts in their respective fields); Wired For Sound: Wild Bass Tell An Amazing Story (A miniature radio transmitter has unlocked amazing largemouth secrets and is disproving many long-held erroneous beliefs); The All-Time Super Systems For Artificial Worm Fishing (How to catch more and bigger bass on worms – anywhere? A fully issustrated and tested look at three super worm rigs. How and where to use them, how to rig them, bass-fishing secrets and a wealth of other information); Bassin’ Man (Second of a four-part series on the mysterious and everchanging world of the bass and bass fishing. This month we look at bass tackle. How to choose the best rods, reels, lines, lures and fish-finding equipment) Fishing – Tackle Craft: Make Your Own Plastic Plugs (An easy method of adapting lures to your tackle box); Partial To Pickerel (A year-round game fish, old chainsides hits lures with abandon and grows to good sizes); The Case For The Caddis: East (The days are gone when there were more trout and heavier mayfly hatches. There’s been a new trend in recent years to the more productive caddis imitations); The Case For The Caddis: West (The only Western species that appears to have benefited from worsening water conditions is the caddis); Who Says Char Won’t Hit Flies? (Nothing could be further from the truth. Char not only hit flies, they go beserk over them) Tail Feathers – Gene Hill (Sometimes when we need a helping hand to guide us through a troubled time we find it deep within ourselves) Hunting – Backcountry Moose Hunt (Three men in three canoes paddle deep into Ontario’s northern wilderness and find big game and adventure aplenty); Facts That Help You Fight For Hunting (If hunting was ever banned in the United States, the economy would collapse. Digest these facts and use them to preserve the horn of plenty we now have); The Shotgunner’s Notebook (How, with a little work, you can make your hunting coat more comfortable and more practical – the way they used to meke them) Editor’s Reports – Saltwater Editor Tom Paugh (tells when to fish the Florida Keys and offers advice on fishing tactics); Boats Editor Zack Taylor (tells how to judge a fiberglass boat so you get your money’s worth); Shooting Editor Grits Gresham (on why the time to buy a new gun for fall shooting is now); Gundog Editor Jerome B. Robinson (on the importance of the stop-to-flush) Travel Afield – Travel Notes (This month we look at salmon fishing in New York, where to find the best trout fishing in New Jersey, the latest guide to Northeast and Southern fishing, resorts that cater to your needs and more) Report Afield – Hot-Spot Treatment For Steel Shot (Proposal would ban lead shot from designated areas on Atlantic Flyway this fall); Backpack “U” (Week-long classes for families and individuals who want to learn about the outdoors); You Gotta Have Heart (National campaign by the American Heart Association to combat heart disease); Better Than Black (A new black-powder substitute that’s safer than the real thing); Do Bass Get Lost? (Recent study shows that bass rely on the sun to guide them); Compact Camper (New subcompact auto doubles as a camper); Sheep Comeback? (Texas and New Mexico transplanting bighorn and Barbary sheep in the wild); New Butts (Aluminum replacing hickory in use for butts on big-game fishing rods); New Record Set For California Bass Limit (Lake San Vicente yields amazing 43-pound 14-ounce string of five bass); National Nightmare (Florida waters found to contain “astronomically high” levels of PCB pollutants); Marlin Maverick (Rams head coach finds that marlin do indeed sometime jump into boats) Trucking Guide – Sportsman’s Guide To Trucking (A complete roundup of information on America’s most popular and useful vehicles – pickup trucks. How to choose the best rig, what options are available, how to drive your rig safely, camper tops and how to use them. This is a guide to read before you buy them); Truck Accessories: What You Need And What You Don’t (How to choose the best accessories) Outdoor-Living Information – Sportsman’s Quiz (A test of your outdoor knowledge); Sportsman’s Information Page (Where to get items of interest to all outdoorsmen) Almanac – Tips, skills, wildlife facts, curiosities, recipes, do-it-yourself outdoor ideas that are informative, fun and will save you money
Issue: April 1976
Condition: Very Good