Fish stories."Hooking the Gullible gul·li·ble adj. Easily deceived or duped. [From gull2.] gul " (SN: 4/24/04, p. 264) reminded me of the old quote: "A fishing lure In terms of sport fishing, a lure is an object attached to the end of the fishing line and designed to resemble and move like an item of fish prey. Lures are equipped with one or more single,double, or treble hooks that are used to hook fish when they attack the lure. is any combination of metal, plastic, wood, feathers, hair, or other manmade or natural material attached to a hook (or hooks) and designed to attract fishermen." To wit: Decades ago, to impress an office associate who was a trout-fishing traditionalist as to how random were the criteria for successful lure designs, I concocted a device before his very eyes in about 5 minutes. The body was a remnant of a peel-off pencil eraser painted with Wite-Out, with hooks attached by a wire that also formed the loop for the line. That evening, I demonstrated the new design by landing two chain pickerel pickerel: see pike. pickerel Any of several North American pikes (family Esocidae), distinguished from the northern pike and muskellunge by their smaller size, completely scaled cheeks and gill covers, and banded or chainlike markings. with it. MARVIN MARVIN - U Dortmund, 1984. Applicative language based on Modula-2, enhanced by signatures (grammars) terms (trees) and attribute couplings (functions on trees). Used for specification of language translators. E. KAHN, DARNESTOWN, MD. Matching a lure's color scheme to the prevailing prey takes too much thought, besides which, most prey is camouflaged. What I think about when choosing a color are flash, fluorescence fluorescence (fl  rĕs`əns), luminescence in which light of a visible color is emitted from a substance under stimulation or excitation by light or other forms of electromagnetic , color intensity, and color combinations. For all humans know, bass have something in their genetic makeup that is a complete color catalog of everything they can eat. Therefore, a perch-colored Rapala becomes lunch, even if that bass never has seen, much less munched, a perch. The bass' eyes and pea pea, hardy, annual, climbing leguminous plant (Pisum sativum) of the family Leguminosae (pulse family), grown for food by humans at least since the early Bronze Age; no longer known in the wild form. brain are geared toward color and contrast detection not to identify, but to detect. A pink worm will most times be more effective than a super-realistically colored worm. We may not always know exactly what a color looks like at the fish's eye level, but fluorescence and flash are predictable and visually attractive. FRANK MANUELE, WALDEN, N.Y. |
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