How to Get Them 



latter an elongated heart-shaped spoon, spinning 

 from a central tube, are effective for salmon and 

 mascalonge. Most of them take fish, without the 

 addition of feathers or live bait. Opinions are di- 

 vided as to the use of bright feathers, hid- 

 Varfety ing the treble-hook; some take the feathers 

 off, in place of them fastening on a 

 single large hook uncovered. It seems reasonable 

 that if the fish take the revolving bright spoon for 

 a minnow, the feather is entirely unnecessary. 

 The same reason may be advanced against adding 

 to the spoon a live or dead minnow\ It would be 

 an interesting experiment if some angler were to 

 devote his time to angling for the various large 

 game fish, and to confine himself entirely to the 

 spoon, both with the attachments and without; of 

 course, it would be necessary for him to be thor- 

 oughly acquainted with the seasons when the fish 

 are taking spoons; for instance, the masca- 

 longe, in Chautauqua Lake, will take the spoon 

 and not the minnow (alive or artificial) in the 

 Spring, and they take the minnow and not the 

 spoon in the Fall. I was much interested on a 

 recent visit to find that a local angler, J. M. 

 Daniels, of Bemus Point, had made a spoon, most 

 ingenious, and humane as well as effective. The 

 spoon itself is made in steel, bronze, brass, and 

 gold, the last expensive, being made 

 Spoon ^"^^ from old watch cases ; it is non- 

 tarnishable. In shape and size it is 

 exactly like a table spoon, a trifle flatter, but 

 instead of the usual triangle hook it has a 

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