Bait Angling for Common Fishes 



trout outfit of a six-foot leader, and three 

 flies tied a foot and a half apart will be suit- 

 able, but the flies should be of the smallest 

 size. It matters not where the cast is made ; 

 in the center of the stream or at the sides, 

 dace will dart for it, not always, to be sure, 

 getting hooked, for they very often rise 

 short, go for the upper fly, miss it, but 

 take the second or first, and so get hooked. 

 Their resistance is similar to that in taking 

 the worm: a desperate and hard fight for 

 a short time, and then suddenly give out, 

 unless they succeed in getting off, which they 

 do many times. In extra swift water their 

 play is exactly that of the brook trout. I 

 had quite a large one playing some time 

 this last season, and was quite sure of its 

 being a trout, till it gave a leap from the 

 water nearly two feet high. Much to my 

 surprise I found it to be an unusually 

 gamey dace. This was in rapid water, 

 rocky bottom. In pond or lake, fishing 

 for dace with worms, exactly the same 

 tackle and methods should be used as in 

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