TROUT HABITS; LURES AND USE 



To grow these maggots put a quarter of a 

 pound of raw liver or fish in a cigar-box filled 

 with sawdust or cornmeal, expose to the sun 

 and the flies will deposit their eggs on it. Leave 

 it hung up in the open air; and the develop- 

 ment is more rapid the warmer the temperature. 

 The creepers develop from the eggs in from 

 three to six days and attain full growth in about 

 another six days an inch, more or less, accord- 



Gad-fly and maggot, horse-fly, and bluebottle-fly 



ing to the species of fly. The adult state of 

 these insects lasts from two to four weeks a 

 tremendously antiquated age compared with the 

 existence of the ephemerals. If another batch 

 is required, add fresh meat or fish and other 

 flies will deposit eggs, and thus a supply of this 

 bait is always available so long as flies are 

 about. If you be not "nice to foul your fingers, 

 which good Anglers seldom are," and "if you 

 desire to keep gentles to fish with all the year," 

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