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can be cast somewhat as the artificial fly ; and it 

 is a very sure hooking arrangement, but it is not 

 necessary for general use unless the trout run 

 large. Ordinarily the medium-sized long-shanked 

 Kirby-Carlisle hook is most suitable. 



Other natural baits may often be used with 

 success in trout fishing in spring if they do not 

 seem to care for the worm ; though at this season 

 the worm is far and away the best bait, and can 

 always be got by the waterside if you run short 

 of your cleansed garden worms. In some streams 

 the fresh-water shrimp is to be found, and two 

 should be impaled on a rather smaller hook than 

 that in use for worm-fishing. You will find them 

 under stones. Then, there is the larvae of the 

 stone flies or the case or caddis insects. You 

 take one of these and squeeze it, and instantly the 

 little black head of the creature pops out of the 

 case in which it dwells. The latter looks exactly 

 like a bit of twig or stick on the gravel, and its 

 dress shows another of nature's benevolent ways 

 of hiding its creatures from observation by mak- 

 ing them precisely like their surroundings. The 

 grub or worm out of its case is like a maggot, and 

 is a most killing lure. Every brook, it is true, 



