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description which are frequently found in favored 

 localities are most deadly with grilse. 



" The Devon is a popular lure from season's end 

 to season's end in heavy waters. Much depends on 

 its spinning qualities, and the same observation with 

 regard to the use of the various colored phantoms 

 holds equally good. A clear Devon for a clear 

 water, and a yellow or brown when the water is col- 

 ored. A striped Devon, on the other hand, has the 

 combined advantages of both. Spinning with the 

 Devon follows on exactly the same lines as spinning 

 with the natural minnow. The Devon is a good 

 evening bait, and salmon will come at it when it is 

 uselessly late for offering any other lure. It is a 

 good grilse lure in streams and in a biggish water, 

 but its most deadly records are made in the tidal 

 waters in the heart of a run of sea trout. The prawn 

 is a pure enigma, yet it is a fetching lure under 

 somewhat the same conditions as the natural min- 

 now. But in addition, when a potted fish cannot be 

 approached with any other thing, it will succumb to 

 the prawn, and this even in a small clear water. 



"The salmon takes the worm best when the water 



