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up, sidewaj^s, in both rapid and slow jerks. Even 

 when trolling the baits in still water, the jerk 

 movement is decidedly good, particularly for 

 crawfish and hellgranimite. This same jerking is 

 good in live-bait fishing, but with a limit; because 

 the bait may be jerked off, a situation not pos- 

 sible with artificials. 



Rising again to the surface, special mention 

 should be made of the tiny baits on No. 10 hooks 

 — the terror, grasshopper, cricket, nymph, caddis, 

 darning-needle, and tiny hellgrammite. I fish 

 them all, as I do flies. They are no heavier but 

 they float better. All are deadly baits at certain 

 seasons for average-size natives, browns, and 

 rainbows from ten to fourteen inches long. With 

 the fish at that size, these baits give better sport 

 than it is possible to get in any other way out- 

 side of fishing the fly. The way I play them is 

 superior even to dry-fly fishing for several reasons, 

 one being that the fishing is continuous, with no 

 bother of drying or changing your flies. You can 

 fish with success all day with any one of them 

 and continue to capture fish after you have tested 

 the right one to use. I have proved that both 

 cricket and grasshopper will attract trout long be- 

 fore the live insects are abundant. This is an un- 



