TROUT HABITS; LURES AND USE 



bottle of water by changing the water occa- 

 sionally. If the fish are biting well it will be 

 necessary to fill up the bottle only when replac- 

 ing the water spilled in taking out a fresh bait. 



For night fishing especially it is not neces- 

 sary to preserve the minnow alive, in casting, 

 and the large hook used may first be passed 

 through the gills and then inserted lengthwise 

 of the body, entering near the tail with the 

 point directed toward the head, and in such a 

 manner as to curve the body and cause the bait 

 to revolve or spin when drawn through the 

 water. (The natural minnows preserved in 

 formalin solution, tablespoonful to a pint of 

 water, are not bad emergency casting-bait, and 

 are purchasable in various sizes, by the bottle. 

 They are sometimes used on an Archer spinner.) 



An easy way to catch grasshoppers is to scare 

 them into the water and then pick them from 

 the surface; or go into a corn-field, scaring them 

 from the grass onto the corn, and reach around 

 and grab them off the further side of the corn- 

 blades to where they retreat to hide from you; 

 their shadows will show through the leaves on 

 your side, revealing their location. 



Grasshoppers the yellow-bellied field fellows 

 about one and one-quarter inches long being 

 one of the best of all-round baits for trout, bass, 

 and the smaller fish pan-fish as well, during 

 late July, all of August, and even well into mild 



