NEW ARTIFICIAL NATURE LURES 



bass fishermen from the use of wooden or metal 

 lures. The new ideas I propose are primarily for 

 my own use and pleasure; but I offer them, after 

 proving them good, to my brother anglers every- 

 where, to accept or decline as they choose. 



Beyond question there are. a host of anglers, like 

 myself, sick and tired of testing new devices and 

 ideas that lately flood the market claiming under 

 various pretenses to be perfect killers. I do not 

 deny their value or usefulness under certain condi- 

 tions and methods of fishing. The aim and object 

 of my work is to imitate both flies and lures as 

 nearly as possible like the natural food game fishes 

 consume. This principle, everybody must agree, is 

 a good and right one. 



In describing this feather minnow, the larger of 

 the two is selected from a great many different 

 kinds I have made. The body is soft, though solid, 

 and wound over a long, powerful single hook, which 

 curves under the tail, making the hook partly invisi- 

 ble from below. A double hook, smaller in size, is 

 placed under the fore part of the belly, hidden by 

 two pectoral fins of speckled cock's hackle. In my 

 first efforts I placed the double hook on top, near 

 the tail, hidden by a stiff dorsal fin of turkey -wing 

 feather, cut to shape. But this, I found, would 

 interfere with the minnow's floating belly down — 

 a position absolutely necessary in the water. Al- 

 though this would be a more effective hold when the 



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