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Overhanging banks, deep eddies, and dark 

 looking holes are always good and likely 

 places into which to sink your bait for a 

 trout. 



It will generally be found in such spots, 

 that two small shots are sufficient to sink the 

 bait, which should go down steadily and 

 gradually, as if it accidentally fell off the 

 overhanging bank. The practised angler, who 

 can best perform this sportsmanlike mode of 

 fishing for trout, uses no float. 



Gentles, grubs, caterpillars, and most of the 

 various larvse and pupae, are used as baits for 

 trout. 



Salmon-roe is also used in summer, and is 

 often found the most killing bait that can be 

 cast to a trout. Live minnows and artificial 

 baits, such as kill-devils, minnows, and such 

 like, may also be employed with capital suc- 

 cess. 



The mode of baiting with, and spinning the 

 minnow has been already described on pages 

 53 61, to which we refer the tyro on this head. 



The artificial flies used for trout fishing have 

 been already mentioned under the different 

 monthly heads. 



