THE IMPROVED FLOATING NATURE LURES 135 



Very little description is necessary concerning 

 the remainder of the nature lures which are all 

 made to act in the water exactly like nature, and 

 will, as it were, speak for themselves. The green 

 and brown frogs are constructed to float right, 

 with only the head above water, so that they will 

 not turn over with belly up, and the movable 

 legs will hang down when in repose; but when 

 moved along, the legs spread out as in the act 

 of swimming. Both the large size and the little 

 jumper frogs are solidly built, so far as possible 

 weedless, and are most attractive lures. 



The bullhead should rightly be included along 

 with the minnows, having a solid silver belly, 

 with dark-colored body. It has been used with 

 success for rainbows and bass. 



The crawfish is primarily a bass bait, with body 

 hook and detachable tail hook; it is painted on 

 the back in light brown, with underbody pale 

 cream to exactly imitate the natural creature. I 

 have made a varied selection of grasshoppers 

 both in size and color, copied from numerous 

 species, ranging from the large three inch down 

 to the tiny little red grasshopper on No. 10 hook, 

 specially tied for small brook-trout. 



Both the bass-hellgrammite and winged hell- 



