GRAYLING FISHING. ! I4I 
GRASSHOPPER-FISHING. 
The lure known by the name of the artificial grass- 
hopper, is really a rough imitation of a caterpillar, and 
not of a grasshopper. The best are imitations made as 
follows. Whip a strand of fine stained gut on toa No. 10 
or No. 11 hook ;* making the silk lapping extend as far 
as the bend of the hook. Take a lightish lead, bored, 
of about an inch in length ; cut it down at one end to 
the length of the lapping (about three-quarters of an 
inch), taper it off at the thick end a little with a knife, 
and then run it over the shank of the hook, with the 
heaviest end towards the bend of the hook: pinch it so 
as to fix it firmly in its place; and make a few transverse 
“nicks” with the knife to cause the dubbing to stay on: | 
then lap the lead all over with Aight yg. g. Be 
green worsted ; and make a few turns 3 
over this body with yellow silk, waxed 
with colourless wax. It is an im- 
provement to the appearance of the 
grasshopper to run a narrow slip of 
straw down each side of the body 
under the yellow ribbing. 
The form of the grasshopper is 
shown in the engraving (figure 1), Grasshopper. _—Float. 
It should be baited for use with three or four large 
* If a No. 11 hook is used, which is on the whole the best size of bend, 
a small piece of the end of the shank should be nipped off, as the grass- 
hopper would otherwise be too long and large for ordinary purposes. 
