26 FISHERMAN'S LURES 



by anglers who hook them aHve to fish at the 

 surface for the big rainbows. These big rainbows 

 run up to fourteen pounds' weight, and they are 

 so adroit in nipping the insect from the hook that 

 several experts requested me to make an artificial 

 from specimens sent me in "spirits," which I did, 

 and named it the "Winged Hellgrammite." Its 

 body measures over two inches in length, the 

 wings extending half an inch beyond the tail, 

 and with the two long black horns at the head 

 the entire insect measures three and three-quarter 

 inches long. 

 The artificial hellgrammite creeper differs some- 

 what in having a row of short-pointed feelers along 

 each side of the abdomen. The belly is grayish 

 cream-color, the back dark brown with black 

 shiny head and thorax. The artificial of this creeper 

 has been found exceedingly good in many swift 

 and still waters for large or small-mouth bass and 

 wall-eye. A smaller and decidedly different species, 

 the artificial of which I have named the "Trout 

 Hellgrammite," because I found it frequently in 

 the stomachs of brook-trout in widely different 

 localities, is described in detail elsewhere along 

 with the other creepers that trout take as food. 

 The hellgrammite creeper is very easily captured 



