TROUT HABITS; LURES AND USE 



wings, and their larvae (maggots), some of the 

 larger water flies, as May-flies or drakes, also 

 the stone-flies and their larvae, salmon eggs, fish 

 eyes (pectoral fins are used for artificial "flies"), 

 meat (pork-rind also is used not as a natural 

 bait, but to simulate a minnow), and vegetables. 

 (A strip cut from a larger fish's side and white 

 belly, near the tail and including a portion 

 thereof, or the "throat-latch" of a pickerel, 

 make good casting substitutes for the minnow.) 

 Nessmuk's white grubs doubtless were the large 

 ones found often in rotting stumps and logs, or 

 dug from the soil. 



Minnows and worms usually are fished down- 

 stream or across and down, with or without a 

 shot sinker, and allowed to run with the current; 

 unless bottom-fishing in still water, when a 

 sizable sinker is used and perhaps a float or 

 bobber. Worms are tucked on the hook by 

 catching the point just underneath the skin at 

 several places and leaving quite a bit of both 

 ends to wriggle. This is the available method of 

 fishing in small brooks or parts of a stream that 

 run through a tangled overgrowth of vegeta- 

 tion which prevents casting. The bait is worked 

 with the aid of the current into all the likely 

 nooks and crannies, which often hide surpris- 

 ingly good fish that remain unmolested for the 

 most part because of their inaccessibility to the 

 less venturesome and persistent anglers. 

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