PRACTICAL ESSAY. 



Floating May-flies are also very killing. 



Doping with the natural fly is also very successful, and the best 

 way is to attach a long line of floss silk to your running line, and 

 a short cast of finest gut armed with a small hook to that. You 

 stand at the windward side of a river or lake, or in a boat, and let 

 the light line belly out in the breeze, so that the fly just touches 

 the water here and there. This is a very artistic and killing 

 method, and is called blow-line fishing. 



Minnow-fishing is very deadly to the trout, and the largest fish 

 are generally killed by its means. The accompanying cuts will 

 ; show the methods of baiting. The object of bending the body of 

 the minnow is that it shall spin while it is being drawn through 

 the water, so hiding the hooks and increasing the brilliancy and 



