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right up to within a few yards of the fisherman, and should 

 a sudden increase in speed be made at the last moment it 

 will frequently lead to an eager rush and a hooked fish. 



Although I now use only the fly or spinning bait I quite 

 sympathize with the man who first tries the fly, then the 

 minnow, the spoon, the prawn, and the shrimp, and finally 

 succeeds in capturing his fish with a bunch of worms. 



SIZE OF LURE 



The advisability of varying the size of the lures offered 

 to the salmon must be evident, when it is remembered that 

 salmon are caught with the small trout flies, fly spoons and 

 with the smallest minnows, and the fisherman should always 

 remember that the farther from salt water, the finer and 

 lower the water in the river he is fishing, the finer should be 

 his traces and the smaller his lures ; a brown-coloured shrimp, 

 well sunk, is for this reason one of the most effective lures 

 in dead low water. The one drawback however to using 

 the finer lures is the difficulty of killing with them, as the 

 rod, the line and the cast, with which these are fished, have 

 to be proportionately delicate ; but when fish are hooked 

 under such conditions the odds are exciting enough to 

 please most people, and the use of such fine lures is 

 frequently the only method of obtaining sport. 



THE NUMBER OF HOOKS ON A LURE 



If only the natural or artificial minnow or spoon were 

 used with but a single hook, instead of two or more flights 

 of triangles, the minnow would be in every way as sporting 

 a lure as the fly, and, both in salmon and trout waters, a 

 minnow armed with a single hook would give far greater 

 sport, injure and scare far fewer fish, and lead to a more 

 equal distribution of catches from the sea to the spawning 

 beds. A salmon whose mouth has been lacerated by triangles 



