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NEW BOTTOM-CREEPER BAITS FOR TROUT 

 NOT HERETOFORE KNO\VN 



Every angler must be deeply interested in things 

 that are new and likely to be good lures to entice 

 either rainbows, brown trout, or natives — ^pos- 

 sibly all three — more especially so if we can get 

 them to be effective when flies are useless, at times 

 in early spring or hot midsummer. During the 

 last two seasons the post-mortem examination of 

 the stomach contents of many native, brown, 

 and rainbow trout revealed to me the amazing 

 fact that the identical creatures served as bot- 

 tom food for trout caught in waters as far apart 

 as Lake Edward, Quebec; Lake Kora, Adiron- 

 dacks; and the Neversink River, New York. 



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