RIGHT IMPLEMENTS AND METHODS 



tip play. This same thing I expect and truly hope 

 anglers will attain with these nature lures. 



Now, the first important thing is to use the right 

 implements. You should have a powerful trout 

 rod at least nine feet long (still longer is better), 

 with a stiff yet pliable tip, at the end of which 

 should be an agate guide and another one near the 

 handle, a distance of nine inches from the handle; 

 between these two the rest should be snake guides. 

 You should have a good, yet soft, oiled-silk line that 

 wiU shde through the guides as easily as if greased. 

 I now use an imported tapered dry fly trout line, 

 because I find it the best and I can, if desired, put 

 on a fly without vexatious delay in changing reel 

 and line. A two-dollar single-click reel will suf- 

 fice. 



The most important part of all is that you use 

 with each and every lure a single bass gut leader 

 from three to six feet long, neatly tied, without 

 loop, through the eye of the hook at one end, the 

 other end attached to the line with a loop. 



One angler wrote that his frog persisted in float- 

 ing on its back. Yet every frog is made the same, 

 of material that so balances as to be impossible of 

 itself to turn over when dropped into the water. 

 I found out that the angler (an expert) had used 

 a short double gut leader, only six inches long, which 

 turned the frog every time he cast. Another used 



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