FISHERMAN'S LURES 



the gamiest, from the salmon and trout down the 

 line. In this valuable assistance, anglers can do their 

 part in more than one way; first by refraining 

 from the use of live bait, allowing it to remain 

 to foster game-fish growth, and by using in its 

 place various artificial baits, either of their own 

 make or procured from others. Nearly every State 

 in the Union, east or west, maintains competent 

 fish commissions and hatcheries to breed game- 

 fish for planting in their own waters. They can, 

 I think, help their States to a much greater degree 

 by more feeding rather than by breeding. The 

 poultryman does not stop at the incubator, turn- 

 ing loose the tender chicks to forage anyhow for 

 themselves; he provides food to fatten up and 

 make them grow. There is no reason whatever 

 why all barren streams and lakes in America 

 should not be well supplied with ample natural 

 food to sustain many times the quantity of edible 

 game-fish now available, if scientific methods 

 were in vogue. 



It requires no genius to know that birds, animals, 

 and fishes live to eat; the latter more than any. 

 Fish always congregate thickest in any water 

 where food is most abundant, and the more food 

 of any sort they eat, the more rapid their growth 



