STREAMCRAFT 



a "Baby Crab Wiggler;" some large bucktail- 

 flies and an assortment of other interchange- 

 able bass flies of different colors, which can be 

 attached to a small spoon and used with or 

 without pork-rind strips, as noted in the chapter 

 on "Flies." The last, and lighter, baits require 

 weighting in order to cast them with the short 

 rod, and a "coin" sinker placed a little ahead of 

 the fly and against a split-shot serves the pur- 

 pose nicely. These remarks apply also to the 

 phantom minnow. 



The casting itself is as complex as fly-casting 

 and hence quite as productive of pleasure as 

 the satisfactory accomplishment of any bit of 

 involved technic. But however enthusiastic the 

 reader may become over this mode of angling, 

 it is hoped that he will restrict the armament on 

 whatever types of "dreadnaught" or "subma- 

 rine" he shall particularly affect, to the use of 

 three single hooks at most (the legal limit in some 

 waters), or better yet, to one. 



The cast is made either by a side or overhead 

 movement. The former is the easier to learn 

 and drops the lure with less splash; the latter is 

 more accurate and with it a longer stretch of 

 water may be covered. Eighty or ninety feet 

 is only a moderate cast for one who is proficient. 

 The standard line for this game is a small hard- 

 braided undressed-silk one, though some prefer 

 the soft-braided finish. A line of twelve pounds 

 64 



