FLIES AND FLY FISHING. 79 



one side and then the other, either by winding in the line 

 with the reel, or a better plan is gathering it in your 

 hand, as is often done when spinning for pike ; the bait 

 spins more evenly and continuously when the last plan is 

 followed. 



When the fish run well minnow fishing is very good 

 sport, but if you do not get a run at all, after having 

 tried three or four likely places, the probability is that 

 you will have no sport. 



On all really good fly-fishing streams minnow ought to 

 be prohibited until July, then I think a little of it does 

 good, as you kill large fish that are not often taken with 

 fly, and that are much better out of the water. It is 

 curious in preservation how little attention is paid to the 

 fact that an unusually large trout in a small stream is 

 as lad as a pike. 



I do not often fish with minnow on large rivers, pre- 

 ferring the fly even in the early mornings, but when I do 

 I always use the natural minnow, because a different 

 method of fishing should be employed on very large waters 

 from that above described, and the small metal artificial 

 is not adapted for it. 



In natural minnow fishing large liook tackles are always 

 preferable to flights made of triangles only. 



