TROUT HABITS; LURES AND USE 



Grasshopper storage box 



three-eighths of an inch wide and closing with 

 a sliding door. Keep the box out of the hot 

 sun. For wading, carry a supply in one of the 

 boxes, having a slide in the cover, in which 

 several brands of "cube-cut" or "grain-cut" to- 

 baccos are packed in. 



A Dip into Pis- 

 catorial Entomol- 

 ogy. A concise 

 summary here of ^ 

 the metamorphoses f% 

 of insect life will 

 be helpful. In its 

 first state an in- 

 sect is called a 

 larva. Grubs, cat- 

 erpillars, and maggots or gentles are the more 

 worm-like larval (creeping) forms of insects of 

 different orders ; thus the larvae of flies are called 

 maggots, of beetles are termed grubs, and those 

 of butterflies are caterpillars. The hellgramite 

 or dobson, so highly valued by the bass fisher- 

 man, is the larva of a large winged-insect called 

 Corydalus cornutus. Hellgramites are found 

 under the stones in stony, pebbly, shallow parts 

 of streams. Roll the stone over and catch the 

 dobson in a net held just below, as he floats 

 downstream. Besides frogs and minnows, 

 which are both trout and bass baits, the re- 

 maining principal natural baits for bass are 

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