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copper spoon, cloudy day or rough water use a brass 

 or nickel spoon. Keep it moving and use a Dipsey 

 sinker to take it down deep. 



QUESTION. How do you get helgramite for bait, 

 and are they good bait for bass? K. M. D. 



ANSWER. The helgramite is a fine bait for bass. 

 You will find them under stones in streams. Hold 

 a minnow net below the stone, turn the stone over, 

 and the current will wash the helgramite into the 

 net. They double up into a ball, and the current 

 carries them downstream when dislodged from the 

 under side of stones. To hook them start the hook 

 under the hard shell near the head and out the other 

 end. 



QUESTION. What kind of bait do you recom- 

 mend for pickerel in August? Is there a trap for 

 catching crawfish? How do you catch crawfish for 

 bait? H. H. 



ANSWER. A No. 3 spoon with a minnow, shiner 

 or pork rind makes good pickerel bait. I know of 

 no trap for catching crawfish. You can find them 

 around rocky shores in the sand and under stones. 

 They crawl under the sand and raise a little sand 

 hump. Dig them out; you can get them in an old 

 landing net; place it behind them, and they'll back 

 in. Try the outlet of a lake and the mud bottoms 

 close to shore. 



