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of demonstration nevertheless. The trouble 

 with many anglers is that they condemn a method 

 before they try it which, by the way, is true of 

 other than mere fishermen. Our preconceived 

 notion of a "spoon" is a great bit of metal, 

 weighted with a chunk of lead and fastened to 

 the end of a hand-line; but the "spoon" used by 

 the finished trout spinner is as light and airy as 

 is the fuzzy-wuzzy lures effected by the fly artist. 

 Before you pass judgment, investigate. 



Of course one would not think of using a spin- 

 ner on a little, brushy brooklet where the seldom 

 pools are but caricatures of broad-reaching 

 "swims"; nor yet would one attempt to spin upon 

 the white waters of a mountain torrent. But the 

 wide and deep river, or the small stream with 

 deep, silent pools these are a different proposi- 

 tion. I have never used spinners to any great 

 extent in the rapids, though trout will rise to 

 them there, probably because in deep water I 

 have found the little lures more attractive to 

 large fish, and it is as a lure for large fish that 

 spinners are here recommended. There are 

 pools on the average trout stream sheltering 

 such fish as the angler dreams about, fish waiting 

 for the man with a spinner, the man who knows 

 how to handle the rod and efface himself. 



