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ANGLING FOR GAME FISH. 



you would with a fly. If casting straight down stream and 

 spinning up, which is not often advisable, draw the bait very 



slowly. Spin where the fish are; their haunts 



have been already described. 



Artificial minnows, like flies, are legion. The 



best for rapid trout-streams are the Devon and 



the quill minnow. Devons vary somewhat. 



In the old-fashioned ones, the hooks were 



everlastingly 



Fig. 55. Watchet 

 Minnow, 



coming away 

 from the bait. 

 Two new va- 

 rieties which 

 approach per- 

 fection are 

 Farlow's Wat- 

 chet bait (Fig. 

 55), and the 

 Salvus min- 

 now, sold by Perrot, of Kings- 

 bridge, South Devon. In the 

 Salvus minnow the bait never 

 leaves the hooks when being 

 cast, but as soon as a fish is 

 hooked it runs up the line. 

 The same may be said of the 

 Watchet minnow. A very 

 excellent and beautifully- 

 made quill minnow is illus- 

 trated in Fig. 56 ; I obtained 

 it from Bowness, of Temple 

 Bar. It is so light that it 

 can, if desired, be cast like a 

 fly. It is a most killing bait. 

 Cummins, of Bishop Auck- 

 land, sells some excellent 

 quill minnows made in a 

 slightly different way, which 



Fig. 56. Bowness' Quill Minnow. 



