THE PUFF PISCATORIAL. 207 
“THE ARTIFICIAL GRASSHOPPER. 
“Tun SHason for the Grasshopper Fishing is ARRIVED 
for Trout, and the Grayling will follow in quick succession. 
“This Artificial Bait, not generally known, has been in 
use for Forty or Fifty Years, and anglers on the rivers Lugg 
and Teme, in this locality, are well acquainted with its deadly 
attractiveness when used for Grayling. 
“ The bait was originally made for Grayling ony ; and 
its work was considered to end there, but in using it for up- 
wards of twenty years, 1 have found that nearly all fresh- 
water fish can be taken with it, when made of different sizes 
and shades of colour. 
“ The fish do not nibble, but rush at the bait as a grey- 
hound would throw at a hare, or like fish generally run at 
any other Trolling bait. I have taken with it Trout, Gray- 
ling, Perch (any quantity), Pike, Chub, Shad, Twaite, Dace, 
Roach, Ruffs, Gudgeons, and Flounders. 
“The Artificial Grasshopper is a sink-and-draw bait, 
equally good in Ponps as in Rivers, used near the bottom, in 
the usual haunts of the Fish you REquIRE. Sinking and 
drawing UP and pown, at the rate of about 25 ups and 25 
downs per minute, about 15 inches EACH DRAW OR LESS. 
Anglers generally use a small bit of worm on the point of the 
hook, or a Cadiz Grub for Trout. The natural Grasshopper 
for Grayling, or a bit of Worm, or a gentle, they serve just to 
hide the Bia Hook which is intended to take the fish; but 
when the fish are well on their feed there requires no disguise 
to this Artificial bait. Anglers that use the Artificial Grass- 
hopper consider it a mountain or a mouse, z.e. one day every 
fish seems eager to be the first to take it, and another day no 
fish will look at it. Although essentially a Grayling bait, it 
should only be used in Extreme Cases. All that can be 
said in its favour is, that the Angler will take a much greater 
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