Favorite Fish and Fishing 



welcome as a pleasing and meritorious in- 

 novation, I feel compelled to enter a pro- 

 test against claiming for It a higher niche 

 in the ethics of sport than wet fly-fishing. 

 And with all due respect for the dry fly men 

 of Great Britain, I can not admit that they 

 trot in a higher class than those " chuck 

 and chance it " fishers of honored and 

 revered memory: Sir Humphry Davy, 

 " Christopher North " and Francis Francis. 

 Bait Fishing It Is the practice of some anglers to con- 



fine themselves entirely to natural bait in 

 trout fishing, the favorite bait being the 

 earthworm or "barnyard hackle"; also 

 grasshoppers, grubs, crickets, or bits of 

 animal flesh. While not so artistic, or for 

 that matter not so successful as fly-fishing 

 when the streams are clear, there are times 

 when bait-fishing can be practiced without 

 prejudice, and to better advantage than fly- 

 fishing : as when streams are rendered turbid 

 or roily by rains. 



A capital bait is the beautifully tinted 

 anal fin of a trout, which In water with 

 some current waves, wabbles and flutters in 

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