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gut-end, cork float, and No. 5 hook ; bait with 

 marsh worms well scoured, and be careful they 

 are lively, as the Trout will not touch a worm 

 that is the least stale or mangled ; let your bait 

 gently touch the bottom, do not strike the mo- 

 ment you feel a tug, but slacken your line, and 

 after you have felt one or two sharp tugs, strike 

 smartly, give him line, and be not in too great 

 a hurry to land him. Angle in the roughest 

 part of the stream. 



The Spinning-Minnow is practised with very 

 great success for large Trout, and is accomplished 

 in the following manner: get your tackle which 

 you can purchase ready made, put the two 

 hooks in the Minnow, which if they are pro- 

 perly whipped on will give it a curve throw 

 the minnow across the stream (downwards) and 

 draw it gently towards you in an oblique direc 



