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member you are fishing with floating baits that 

 obediently follow where you lead them. You are 

 not trying to show how beautifully you can cock 

 a dry-fly on smooth water; you are doggedly, yet 

 intelligently, stalking trout under most adverse 

 conditions. Have no fear the lure w r ill do its part 

 to float, and to follow where you lead it. 



We shall now go over exactly the same ground 

 with bottom lure, weighted with lead, and fish 

 with a different rig a shorter line, and greater 

 difficulties to contend with. Again please consult 

 Chapter XII as to the proper way to use the rig 

 and method for bottom fishing. Assuming we 

 have two baits on, tied, one twelve inches above 

 the round sinker at the end, which is a trout- 

 hellgrammite, the other a little one-and-half-inch 

 terror minnow, with these you cast to the various 

 places previously mentioned. If the water is swift 

 enough to carry the lead gradually forward, make 

 a series of "pumps," i. e., lift the rod high up and 

 drop the lead farther forward. While the surface 

 method practically does its own work by aid of 

 the water flow, the bottom method requires you 

 to move oftener from place to place in order to 

 put your baits in the right positions, especially 

 so near by a rock, or curves in the bubbles. In 



