hooked one rainbow. My companions with wet flies hooked 

 but one fish. Had we been provided with dry fly tackle 

 and a dry march brown on the leader, fishing up the pool, 

 it is possible we should have bagged six brace of fish each. 

 I say "possible" it might have been none at all. I have 

 experienced these remarkable glut rises many times, es- 

 pecially of the shad fly, and many times failed before I 

 learned the art of fishing the dry fly. A nicely cocked march 

 brown floating down alongside the natural insects surely 

 does the trick, and I know the same things will happen with 

 nymphs when they, too, rise in great numbers. 



BOTTOM LURES FOR TROUT 



Before concluding the subject of the nymph as a bottom 

 bait perhaps trout anglers will be interested to know of sev- 

 eral other new trout baits that I discovered and introduced 

 which have already become favorite lures with a great 

 many expert anglers fishing far Western streams, also in 

 Canada and Maine. I allude to the little trout helgramite, 

 the caddis creeper, a tiny crawfish and cricket. With the 

 exception of the cricket all are fished at the bottom, where 

 the natural creatures they correctly imitate abide. 



Only within the last few weeks I came across an ex- 

 tremely interesting article printed in the first "report" of the 

 Fish and Game Commission of New York State, written by 

 my old friend, the late Nelson A. Cheney, on "Natural Food 

 of Trout." 



Every angler should read it, I'm sure they will have 

 great benefit from its perusal. Among other things he men- 

 tions: "While expert fishers have for centuries been de- 

 voting all their energies to the fly alone as a lure for trout, 

 they forgot, or perhaps were not aware of the many bottom 

 creatures serving as food for trout that could be made of 

 practical use either as natural baits or fair imitations of 

 them." Strangely enough, he mentions two creepers that I 

 have since made artificial imitators of that have proved 

 effective lures, without my knowing of his suggestions. The 

 most popular of these trout lures is the little trout helgramite, 



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