Popular Bottom Fresh=Watcr Fish 



certainly, the best sport is with the fly at evening 

 on running streams. The most likely method 



is casting over deep and swift water at 

 Q I re *^^ ^°°* °^ rapids, when there is a brisk 



wind blowing. In such places they 

 congregate in search of minnows that are ren- 

 dered helpless by the churning waters. For lake 

 fishing, the rod should be stout, with a strong 

 silk or Cuttyhunk line; the hook snelled with 

 gimp or piano wire, because, like the pickerel, 

 their sharp teeth easily cut through the stoutest 

 gut. Drop down a sinker to find the proper 

 depth to adjust the float — three or four shot 

 placed on the snell to keep the minnow down 

 in deep water. More fish are caught on dull, 

 cloudy, windy days and in the evenings. In 

 minnow fishing, if the fish run to a good size, 

 use No. 2/0 to 3/0 hooks. When a wall-eye 

 takes the bait, it swims leisurely away, sometimes 

 taking the float along without going under the 

 water; let it go some distance, then raise the tip 

 of the rod quickly, and it will be hooked. If it 

 does stop after moving a short distance, then 

 strike good and hard; after being hooked it will 

 tug violently and keep up the game till reeled in. 

 It never runs, but simply pulls and tugs till landed. 

 The large, heavy fish often dive to the bottom 

 after being reeled nearly in; there they stay, 

 jiggering, and it requires careful work to move 

 them. They will only rise to the fly at evening, 

 and that not often, but much more readily in 

 white, foaming water, below a dam or falls; 

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