144 FISHERMAN'S LURES 



a fly that is an exact copy of the insect fish are 

 at the time feeding on." You are supposed to cast 

 it so that it floats cocked in the water, exactly 

 like the natural insect; your fish rises to the 

 artificial imitation within sight of your vision. 

 Nothing more is claimed for this highest art of 

 fishing. 



My aim and desire in the beginning was to do 

 exactly the same thing with all others outside of 

 insects that game-fish consume as food not only 

 trout, but all fish caught on rod and line. However 

 long it might take, and with a determined resolve 

 to buck up against all difficulties, I made up my 

 mind then, as now, in a cheerful spirit and a per- 

 fect confidence that I should win' out. If others 

 do not see it, I still retain the satisfaction of prac- 

 tising it alone, please God, for some years to come. 



With every gradual improvement made in each 

 lure, a separate test has been made, with the re- 

 sult that every game-fish has been taken on the 

 lures, either by myself or by others, even to the 

 Atlantic salmon, a twenty-seven-pound fish cap- 

 tured on my minnow by an angler fishing in Novia 

 Scotia. 



With so radical a change as these nature lures, 

 it is necessary on the part of the inventor to de- 



