Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 256, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 November 1917 — Heron’s Foot for Bait. [ARTICLE]

Heron’s Foot for Bait.

So great is the heron’s repute as a fisher that it has long been thought that it’s feet, owing to some peculiar Scent or oil which they were supposed to possess, attracted the fish, more especially eels, to within easy reach of its beak. In some places the rustic angler still believes that If a heron’s foot is placed with his worms the latter are more eagerly taken by fish. — London Outlook.