NEW ARTIFICIAL NATURE LURES 



no gut leader, but attached the light dragon-fly to 

 a heavy, stiff oiled line which pulled the fly under 

 the surface. Still another sat watching two hours 

 with the rod resting on the boat, waiting for bass 

 to grab the lure lying stiU at the surface. But he 

 did get a strike when reeling in. These are not 

 stupid, only careless, mistakes, due to not having 

 read the instructions that go with each lure. 



Every method, every bait, requires some particu- 

 lar kind of practise to attain success. The expert 

 will get ten times more strikes with live bait than 

 will the amateur who does not fish by method or 

 rule. Casting the plug (Western style) is a case 

 in point. I spent much time learning how to drop 

 a plug properly, then to retrieve the line without 

 snap or other troubles. 



These nature lures are not made nor intended for 

 trolling — except the larger sized minnows. But 

 the frog, crawfish, grasshopper, helgramite, are all 

 made suitable to cast the short distance of thirty 

 feet, more or less. 



If I have not in this book convinced anglers that 

 nature lures (which exactly imitate the color, form, 

 and life movements of natural baits) are equally 

 advantageous to thoughtful anglers, to game fishes, 

 and to the various creatures they feed on, it is not 

 from lack of effort and years of patient study on 

 ray part. But I am confident that in time, with a 



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