NEW ARTIFICIAL NATURE LURES 



be forced out, and cast by the lightest trout rod. 

 While it rests on the water, the slightest agitation 

 of the rod-tip will make the frog move its legs in 

 the attitude of swimming. It is taken for granted 

 that anglers know that with all artificial lures when 

 grabbed, a rapid, though slight, Avrist movement 

 must at once be made to embed the hook. Natural 

 bait is first captured, then held in the mouth and 

 gorged at leisure. Only flies are gorged at once 

 when taken. 



I have a particular antipathy to that horrible 

 method known as "trolling" ; and I don't much en- 

 joy or find sport in "still fishing" — ^when you sit in 

 a boat on a lake, chuck overboard a lot of ground- 

 bait, then drop to the bottom a big night-walker 

 worm, to shortly pull up a fat, lazy trout, which 

 everybody says "can't be caught any other way," 

 except on rare occasions in spring when they do 

 sometimes rise to flies. 



I do not believe these methods to be the "only 

 way" to get fish from deep water. I know these 

 frog and minnow lures will and have attracted fish 

 to the surface of both lake and stream. Not al- 

 ways, perhaps, but most often. Yet in the event 

 of the unusual happening, it is quite simple enough 

 to place a buckshot four inches from the lure on the 

 leader, to gradually sink near the bottom and play 

 the lure in midwater. 



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