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gory of effectual "artificials," the identical rendering 

 referred to having been found to answer in the last 

 method of " worming" described. The artificial here 

 alluded to is constructed in part from India rubber. 



CHAPTEK IX. 



GRUB FISHING FOR GRAYLING .* 



GRUB BAITS FOR GRAYLING; METHODS OF USING; ANGLING REMI- 

 NISCENCE; CAMPING OUT; MAGGOT FISHING. 



This method of grayling fishing has now become so 

 general, that the omission of a reference to it would 

 render incomplete a work dealing with this fish. The 

 baits now commonly used consist of the green (garden) 

 caterpillar, and its artificial, which for some unaccount- 

 able reason is designated the grasshopper; gentles, wasp 

 grubs, caddis-bait, and the larvae of all the large water- 

 flies found in their sheaths in the beds of streams; as also 

 fresh- water shrimps, and other aquatic creatures. Of 

 the larger of these grub-like forms, there are admirable 

 artificial renderings to be had; which, when used as in 

 the case of the green caterpillar, or grasshopper above 

 alluded to, with a couple of gentles upon the somewhat 

 large hook, answer wondrously well, and are often pre- 

 ferred to smaller naturals, owing to the sinking medium 

 being laid in the centre, instead of having it in the shape 

 of shot, sheet-lead, or wire, outside and in view. The 



* The habitat of the American grayling is so limited, that but few of 

 our anglers have an opportunity to fish for them. The chapter is given, 

 more as an illustration of English methods than for its practical value 

 to our native rodsters. 

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