How to Get Them 



(an be seen better than the fly alone. Trout 

 often refuse to rise to the fly on the surface, hut 

 readily take it, if sunk to the depth where they 

 lie, the spoon acting as an additional lure. 



Artificial minnows for trolling:, castinor, and 

 spinning are made of rubber, wood, metal, and 

 even glass, of all sizes. They are painted in col- 

 ors, silvered and gilt; some are used with the fly at 



the end, others made with fly below 

 Minnows , i • • i 



and spoon on top, a combmation that 



seems unnatural. The wooden, painted minnows 

 with glass eyes and two nickle spinners are cer- 

 tainly killing for bass, pike, and trout. The 

 mascalonge will take them just as readily as the 

 natural minnow. Large and small trout take 

 them, if suited to their size. The rubber 

 minnow, silvered or painted natural colors, 

 when made to spin properly, is also a favorite, 

 but the silk phantom in any size seems to be in 



™ X greater demand. The propellers cause 

 Phantom ° . <• i • / 



them to spm perfectly, either castmg or 



trolling ; they should be slowly moved through the 



water when trolling. Those of the smaller size 



never fail to lure pickerel, perch, trout, and the 



larger pike, mascalonge and salmon. Bass, I think, 



at all times and places, go for a phantom minnow 



in running rivers or quiet lakes. I have taken 



bass on a phantom minnow with treble hooks 



removed, and single ones in place. The trouble 



with small phantoms is that they soon become 



chewed out of shape and therefore do not spin 



properly; if the body, instead of being simply 



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