Among other things, she had been educated at Harvard University in the United States. She spoke better English than I do. The last thing she said to me after I’d done some casting for her was ‘Have a great day, Stan.’”
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Fagerstrom started writing about bass fishing in the mid-1940s. He was published in just about every magazine associated with bass fishing since that time and conducted casting clinics or exhibitions over a good bit of the world since the ‘50s
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here are the answers to the test that Jason Lucas presented in his article titled, “You Can Always Find Bass,” from the April 1958 issue of Sports Afield
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Lucas was made angling editor of Sports Afield magazine in the late 40s and penned the first real book on bass fishing in 1947, which was reprinted two more times, first in 1949 and again in 1962. Finding Bass a la Lucas is a look back into one his his best articles on catching the little green fish.
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That gives you an idea for how important Jason was in the history of the sport. We’ll be talking more about his book (a review) and his techniques (pre-tourney tactics) in the future, but for today, I just wanted to post an old ad that was used to sell this book nearly 60 years ago.
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Anyway, this picture, taken from the June, 1970 issue of Fishing Facts, shows Al Linder with his clients and a nice string of largemouths taken from an unmentioned body of water.
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“But we’re not content to publish known material. The staff and I have countless questions about fish and fishing that are begging to be answered – questions which if answered even in part, would have a tremendous impact on fishing tomorrow.”
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