HOW TO USE NATURE LURES 



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bottom fishing I find from experience that Hght 

 buckshot are best, tied at the very end of the 

 gut leader, and the first lure on the eight-inch 

 snell placed twelve inches above the sinker. This 

 rig allows the lure to lie suspended in the water 

 about the same distance trout and other fish usually 



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Lure fishing in deep water. 



lie from the sandy bottom. Another lure may be 

 fixed above, two feet higher. In that situation it 

 very often attracts the fish more than the lower 

 one. This is because, although the lower one may 

 be preferred, it may have been seen and refused 

 because the food it imitates is absent. Another 

 thing, when you lift the rod tip to make the lure 

 active and alive, it draws their attention more to 

 the higher-placed lure. I only use river-bed creep- 



