410 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 ‘DEE’ MINNOW 
MINNOW FLIGHT. FLIGHT. 
FIG 1 FIG. 2. FIG. 3. FIG. 4. 
Unbaited. Baited. Unbaited. 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. 
