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making efforts to do to make the artificials attract 

 the fish. First, to make them artistic and true to 

 nature. Second, to have them act in the water like 

 the creatures they imitate. Third, to plan a method 

 where the fishing is to the angler what indeed it 

 should be, a fine art, withal humane. 



With this preliminary, I will briefly describe 

 the principal baits, so that the angler may, with 

 the aid of pictures, get a better knowledge of the 

 detachable parts and other features that are orig- 

 inal to them. 



Beginning with minnows, which are of great 

 variety in shape, color, and size, from the tiny 

 inch terror to the five-inch-hook shiner for lake- 

 trout, they have become by years of tests and 

 trials in a sort of evolution effective, substantial 

 baits, perfectly well balanced to swim like a nat- 

 ural fish. By advice of* hundreds of experts' 

 suggestions, the hooks are being well placed to 

 catch and to hold. The attachment of leader 

 to eye is exactly like that of a dry-fly. All the 

 minnows up to three-inch hooks are so light as 

 to be easily fished like a fly, with the additional 

 value of being used either in spinning or casting. 

 The proposed new method makes them capable 

 of being trolled at the surface or fished in deep 



