4IO 



SALMON AND TROUT. 



STREAM MINNOW-SPINNING FOR BROWN TROUT. 



This is the only sort of fishing that I am aware of in which 

 an artificial bait may really be used with satisfaction and 

 success, and it is probable that as a matter of fact, many more 

 trout are actually killed in the streams with the brass minnow, 

 or some other artificial imitation of the real fish, than with the 

 minnow itself. But despite the dictum of Mr. Hewitt Wheatley, 

 whose ' nymphs ' and ' water witches ' were, I must say, most 

 graceful, and beautifully drawn, I am disposed to think that 

 this artificial inequilibrium results rather from the additional 

 trouble involved in obtaining and baiting the natural minnow 



'pennell' stream 

 minnow flight. 



'dee' minnow 



FLIGHT. 



FIG t. 



Uiibaited. 



FIG 2. 



Baited. 



FIG. 3. 

 Unbailed. 



FIG. 4. 

 Baited. 



than from any intrinsic advantage which the artificial imitation 

 possesses. Be this as it may, however, I shall begin with the 

 natural bait, on the principle, if upon no other, that the original 

 should take precedence of the copy. 



