QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS 215 



ANSWER. I find the Coaxer, Tango, Jr., all 

 white with red top, Heddon's Baby Crab Wiggler, 

 Wilson Wobbler, rainbow color, and the Bass- 

 areno, white with red head, very good river baits. 



QUESTION. What is the simplest method of 

 tying a leader to the eyed fly. I am starting with 

 the eyed flies this season? B. M. 



ANSWER. Try the " jam knot." To attach a fly 

 in this way, pass the end of the leader through the 

 eye of the hook toward the bend of the hook, bend 

 back this end along the main strand of the leader 

 and tie a half hitch around the main strand without 

 drawing tight, slip the half hitch loop along and 

 down the leader and just over the eye of the hook, 

 then pull tight. 



QUESTION. How shall I go about fishing for 

 Lake Trout? I fish a lake which has been stocked 

 for seven years and they won't rise to anything. 

 P. G. 



ANSWER. Go down after them, Old Man, go way 

 down. Here is a rig; take an eight-ounce sinker, 

 cone-shaped, and tie it to your reel line with a piece 

 of old line about three feet long. Use old line so 

 it will break if snagged on the bottom and you lose 

 only the sinker. Then take three pieces of good 

 line and swivel them to your reel line, the first right 

 above the sinker line connection and the next a foot 



