84 FISHERMAN'S LURES 



When you observe trout rising to feed, it is quite 

 a simple matter to place your artificial fly on the 

 spot, while the fish is down, and if properly placed, 

 the right pattern offered, it will quickly respond, 

 particularly if you cast up-stream. By so doing 

 you take much less chance of being seen by the 

 fish. But what we most desire to overcome is a 

 situation when trout are not visibly feeding, which 

 is most often the rule. A still more difficult prob- 

 lem is, in June, when insects are overabundant 

 on the surface, to succeed in enticing the fish to 

 take your imitation. There is still another situa- 

 tion where in July and August flies become scarce, 

 and natural bait is being consumed on the bottom 

 and at the surface. In this condition crickets, 

 grasshoppers, caterpillars, and small minnows can 

 be floated down along the surface to good effect, 

 and at the bottom the trout-hellgrammite, caddis- 

 creeper, and nymph may be fished by my new 

 method with much greater success than could be 

 attained with the artificial fly which this chart is 

 intended to assist. 



After consulting Chapter XII, How to Use Nature 

 Lures, we start in to fish down-stream at the sur- 

 face with a cricket or grasshopper as bait attached 

 to a six-foot leader, and cast out just the same 



