NEW ARTIFICIAL NATURE LURES 



The minnows here shown are in some respects an 

 advance on the feather minnows previously de- 

 scribed. They are much harder to make, because 

 the two parts are separately constructed, the back 

 of cork, and the belly of wood. They are so made 

 that they float upright and require less movement 

 in playing; in fact, fish have taken them while per- 

 fectly still in repose. I discarded the plume, which 

 forms a prominent feature of the feather minnow, 

 and used a pair of quivering feathers placed at the 

 forward sides of the body as pectoral fins. 



This minnow will be found most effective when 

 cast downstream, then gradually reeled back from 

 side to side of the river, covering as much water as 

 possible. 



I am confident no minnow heretofore invented is 

 so deadly as anglers will find this lure to be if fished 

 in the method I describe. My sole object has been 

 to study and investigate how to get the best sport, 

 the largest fish — which are always hardest to cap- 

 ture — in the highest and most skilful manner, and 

 to supply the means. In order to accomplish this 

 I have during the last three years made careful color 

 pictures of every kind of food that game fish eat, 

 and I now have what I hope will be considered by 

 anglers a complete line of nature lures, as perfect in 

 appearance and action as it is possible to make by 

 hand. 



A live grasshopper that floats downstream in the 



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