136 ADDENDA. 



with the lip hook, the lead to be put into the mouth 

 and thrust down the throat of the minnow. 



TROLLING THE MINNOW. 



The small minnow is well taken in becks and run- 

 ners which a man may leap over, where the trout runs 

 small and often numerous. The two-inch minnow is 

 the best general size for brooks and rivers, and the two 

 double hook tackle, with the lead sinker the snuggest 

 and least seen. The minnow is fished both up and 

 down the stream open streams fish up ; banky or 

 woody parts, up or down as may suit the place or 

 screen the angler. It is pitched underhand on the 

 water, or cast overhead like the fly without check 

 or damage ; it is kept in constant motion by the rod, 

 the stream, and the eddy. Fishing up least exposes 

 the angler to the view of the fish, and the natural dart 

 and sudden appearance of the minnow rouses the lurk- 

 ing trout. To commence at the foot of a stream and 

 cast upwards, try with a few short casts the nearest 

 water, advancing and extending further and higher, 

 radiating with the rod into fresh water each cast, from 

 one side to the other, troll down or athwart, and on 

 each side the descending deep or wherever the trout 

 may resort or shelter. Cast up the running stream, 

 and as the minnow falls upon the water just straighten 

 the line to feel him, and have him at command, to free 

 him of the bottom, accelerate his speed, or veer him to 

 the right or left in his headlong course down the untried 



