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The smallest frogs are used and hooked 

 through both lips, same as a minnow, unless 

 still-fishing, when the latter may be hooked 

 cross wise amidships, just underneath the dor- 

 sal fin, but not so deeply as seriously to in- 

 jure it. Remember that the cardinal rule in 

 still-fishing for bass with the minnow, to await 

 the second run before striking, does not apply 

 to similar angling for trout, which if you are to 

 succeed in hooking them, must be given but 

 little time. The bass grabs the minnow, makes 

 a preliminary run with it, pauses to swallow the 

 bait, and then is off again on his way, but the 

 trouts exhibit no such methodical deliberation. 

 Small grasshoppers are best, and the hook is 

 inserted under the collar-joint just back of the 

 head, and thrust through the length of the body 

 to the tail, or else crosswise through the shoul- 

 ders; crickets similarly. Or these fragile insects 

 may be tied to the hook with fine thread, and 

 we think that Mr. Froggie, if used at all, is 

 also thus best fastened around the waist to the 

 hook. Frogs are a late-season bait. 



Crickets are found under stones, especially flat 

 ones, after mid- August when the nights begin 

 to get cool, and particularly on hills having a 

 Western exposure, and they may be fed on pieces 

 of peeled apple or on sliced tomato while in 

 captivity. Make a cricket cage out of a cigar- 

 box by cutting a window in the cover and screen- 

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