American Bait Minnows 



but the various minnows just named, if of somewhat larger size, 

 are very effective. 



Of course many other kinds of small fishes are used as live- 

 bait in different localities and many kinds of live-bait not min- 

 nows are used, among which the names of many will occur to 

 the angler who reads these pages, — grasshoppers, frogs, clams, 

 white grubs, angleworms, dobsons, hellgrammite, and even mice. 



Perhaps the thorough-going angler will be disposed to scorn 

 all live-bait and use only the artificial fly. And in this he is quite 

 right, for to catch many fish is no longer the desire of the true 

 angler. Only those unworthy the name and whom we no longer 

 respect are disposed to make large catches. Anglers now go 

 a-angling with light tackle and give the fish a chance. They 

 will not catch many fish; the size of the basket is not their aim. 

 They will never take more fish than they can properly use. But 

 they will enjoy fishing only the more on that account. They 

 will get away from offices, counting-rooms, school-books, parlours 

 and five-o'clock teas, out into the open of existence where life is 

 real and where worry and strain and sham are not; where there 

 are green banks and leafy, fragrant woods, singing birds and blue 

 skies. These they will see and feel and enjoy and, returning home, 

 the serious affairs of life will be taken up again with lighter heart 

 and cleaner soul. 



"It is not all of fishing to fish." 



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