98 FISHERMAN'S LURES 



we firmly cling to the use of exact imitations of 

 the fish food located on the chart. 



We then choose another day, with favorable 

 weather, to try bottom fishing from a boat, with 

 a different rig that has a sinker attachment to 

 carry the floating lures near the bottom, using 

 the same lures with the addition of the hellgram- 

 mite and crawfish. If the wind blows and we have 

 no oarsman, we row out beyond the dotted line 

 to about fifty feet from shore, to anchor in selected 

 places. We can begin by trying the rocky plateau, 

 about fifteen feet out in the lake, from G, using 

 as bait the crawfish and casting from place to 

 place till a strike occurs. If not, we take up anchor 

 and row around the line toward F, still fishing 

 with the crawfish. From that we can change and 

 try the hellgrammite in various rocky spots, 

 changing the baits if unsuccessful, and continue 

 fishing with baits that get success. From F, we 

 row^ across to within fifteen feet of dotted line, 

 at D, with green frog as lure, changing again 

 to grasshopper and minnow if no success occurs. 

 Should you desire to fish exclusively for bass, it 

 will perhaps be best to fish the dotted line wdth 

 a varied assortment of minnows, trying a change 

 to hellgrammites and crawfish at such places as 



