SILVER SHINER AND GOLDEN CHUB 



will know of many better dodges used when live- 

 bait fishing that will serve the same ends with these 

 lures. In fact, imagine you are using a live bait; 

 force the fish by your ingenuity to think the same ; 

 then it will go for it quickly enough. 



I do not believe a spoon attachment of any size 

 or make will add to this minnow's usefulness; 

 though I know many anglers place spoons along 

 with their live bait — which, by the way, is more 

 often dead, and for that reason they have to make 

 it spin. But this minnow swims along as if alive, 

 and the brilliant sheen of the gold and silver bellies 

 is sufficiently attractive. 



Finally, in placing this giant minnow before 

 brothers of the craft, I claim it to be a kindly, 

 sportsmanlike lure, in place of what one of my 

 correspondents terms "those murderous grappling 

 irons offered to the multitude, which should be rele- 

 gated to the use of municipal morgues." 



No one living can feel more grief than I at the 

 loss of a very large fish. One season I played a 

 four-pound brown trout for half an hour. He was 

 wilder than a captive wolf, with his leaps and 

 lunges; and I fairly screamed with pain to see my 

 leader snap like a bowstring on his last leap for 

 freedom. Two days later I got him safe ashore, 

 slowly and carefully working, till I was thoroughly 

 exhausted when I slid on to the sandy beach. 

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