How to Get Them 



can be seen better than the fly alone. Trout 

 often refuse to rise to the fly on the surface, but 

 readily take it, if sunk to the depth where they 

 lie, the spoon acting as an additional lure. 



Artificial minnows for trolling, casting, and 

 spinning are made of rubber, wood, metal, and 

 even glass, of all sizes. They are painted in col- 

 ors, silvered and gilt ; some are used with the fly at 



the end, others made with fly below 

 Minnows . , . * , 



and spoon on top, a combination that 



seems unnatural. The wooden, painted minnows 

 with glass eyes and two nickle spinners are cer- 

 tainly killing for bass, pike, and trout. The 

 mascalonge will take them just as readily as the 

 natural minnow. Large and small trout take 

 ,them, if suited to their size. The rubber 

 minnow, silvered or painted natural colors, 

 when made to spin properly, is also a favorite, 

 but the silk phantom in any size seems to be in 



greater demand. The propellers cause 

 Phantom f. r . r 



them to spin perfectly, either casting or 



trolling ; they should be slowly moved through the 

 water when trolling. Those of the smaller size 

 never fail to lure pickerel, perch, trout, and the 

 larger pike, mascalonge and salmon. Bass, I think, 

 at all times and places, go for a phantom minnow 

 in running rivers or quiet lakes. I have taken 

 bass on a phantom minnow with treble hooks 

 removed, and single ones in place. The trouble 

 with small phantoms is that they soon become 

 chewed out of shape and therefore do not spin 

 properly; if the body, instead of being simplv 

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