SO BAIT AND FLY FISHING. 



minnow down the stream as before, till it 

 reach the pool. This precaution keeps you 

 out of sight ; no trout will look at bait if it 

 see the angler first. There is another way 

 which may be tried with success; take a 

 hair of gut or small gimp ; tie on two No. 8 

 hooks back to back, and take a needle, as 

 I have described before, and put it into the 

 mouth of the minnow, bringing it out at 

 the tail ; draw the hooks up so as to protrude 

 at its mouth on each side ; put the loop on 

 the catch at the foot of the casting line ; then 

 throw it into the pool where the stream 

 begins to run slow, using a pellet of lead so 

 as to keep it at the bottom. 



I never hesitated to fish up or down a river 

 according to circumstances. The eyes of 

 trouts project on the same principle as those 

 of the hare, so that they see behind as well 

 as before, looking up the stream for food, 

 and down for enemies. My main object was 

 to draw the hooked ones upon the water I 

 had already fished, either with worm or 

 minnow ; this in most cases I could do only 

 with a small fly, which takes a smaller grip. 

 I worked them down the pool and landed 



