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that a nice trout was risint^ for flies at 
the lower end of the pool on the other 
side of the island. I finished my noon 
spell by cleaning my trout carefully, 
wiping each one dry and wrapping it in 
a piece of paper, and depositing all of 
them in the bottom of my rather large 
creel. 
As planned, my afternoon’s fishing was 
to be in the larger channel on the other 
side of the island. It began with the 
long riffle at the head of the island. This 
was really two riffles, for the very swift 
current at the head, in which there was 
no fishing, was connected with the slower 
riffle at the upper end of the pool by a 
wide, rather shallow, piece of water with 
a fairly stiff current. In this middle sec- 
tion the trout were most likely to lie and 
in it I caught three, one of these being 
almost a foot in length. At the head of 
the pool I caught my fourth trout. Sev- 
eral times while doing this fishing I had 
seen the trout, of which Billy had told 
me, break the water several hundred 
yards below, and I now proceeded to try 
this fish from the island side with a cast 
of flies that I carried wound around my 
hat. My rod was not satisfactory, but 
it could be made to do. The trout was 
in shallow water and quit rising when I 
began to cast near it, and then began 
rising ten feet farther down the stream. 
T now took off my middle, fly and sub- 
stituted a female Beaverkill, which the 
FOREST AND STREAM 
trout took with a rush at my first cast 
near it. In the long, still pool it was not 
difficult to keep control of my fish and 
pick out a good landing place, and in a 
short time I had the satisfaction of slid- 
ing out on to the gravel a beautiful, four- 
teen-inch trout. 
I N the middle of the island, where a 
* spring emptied its cold water into the 
head of a narrow inlet, I cleaned my 
fi\e trout and dried and wrapped them 
as I had the others. Here in the cool 
shade of the big trees I left my basket 
and trout ; the strain of carrying them 
took some of the fun out of my fishing'. 
There were only two places now left for 
me to fish and I saved the more likely 
of these for the closing performance of 
the day. In the first of these places, a 
little side channel which ran under the 
edge of a bank, I caught a nine-inch 
trout. While almost certain to yield a 
trout, the second place was a difficult 
one to fish. Near the head and just on 
the edge of the broad, swift riffle at the 
foot of the island there lay a half-buried 
log of huge dimensions, which projected 
from the bank into the stream at almost 
a right angle with the current. It had 
lain there for years, and from the small, 
deep pool below it, made by the water 
flowing over the log, many a fine trout 
had been taken. But above the log and 
the pool a number of large branches 
June, 1922 I 
hung close to the water, making a cast i 
into the pool impossible. I maneuvred ' 
carefully for a good position in the 
heavy current above the end of the log ; 
and when I had finally secured it I cast i 
out into the stream some distance be- - 
low. As the minnow came spinning past 
the end of the log I saw a big trout 
come out from the depths of the pool 
with a rush, seize my bait and return im- 
mediately to its former position. Rais- 
ing the tip of my rod to keep as much 
line out of the current as possible, I | 
waited a reasonable length of time and i 
then struck hard. At once the fish left | 
the pool and started down the channel. 
I followed as best I could while working 
myself into shallower water where I 
would have better footing. The fish was ! 
so strong and took such advantage of the 
swift water that at times the issue was 
somewhat in doubt. Finally it stopped 
for a rest below a submerged boulder in 
the middle of the stream and when it 
started again I was near the shore and in |i 
full control of the situation. But the 
fish still fought vigorously and not until t 
it had reached the point where the two ' 
channels joined at the foot of the island ! 
did I force the fighting'. Here, almost 
exactly across the stream from where I 
had caught my first fish in the morning, ! 
I finally landed this, my last trout. It j 
was a speckled trout, sixteen inches in 
{Continued on page 271) 
TYING THE FRESH WATER SHRIMP 
A NEW UNDER-WATER LURE FOR TROUT THAT HAS A 
STRONG APPEAL WHEN THEY WILL NOT TAKE A FLY 
By LOUIS RHEAD 
I N my continued research to find effec- 
tive substitutes for high-class sport 
when the trout refuse to take wet or 
dry flies it was apparent that a care- 
ful study of trout food should be made, 
also that the habitat — the situations of 
each creature as it lives in the water — 
was most important so as to “found” a 
proper method in which to use them as 
lures. I have ample proofs — if my 
nymphs are fished 
right — that is, from 
the bottom to mid- 
water, that they 
will rapidly become 
of permanent ser- 
vice to trout fisher- 
men. The same can 
be said of the trout 
helgramite, whose Natural shrimp 
habitat is the bed 
of the stream and the right situation 
where the lure should be placed. The 
caddis creeper is somewhat similar in 
shape to the nymph but it should be kept 
near the bottom roundabout boulders and 
large stones. 
Now comes the latest fish food, the 
freshwater shrimp, of which I have 
made a most careful artificial imitation. 
I feel it will become an equal, if not a 
superior, bait to the others, but it is more 
especially suited for fishing weedy places 
at the stream side in slow water where 
aquatic vegetation grows. Briefly, we 
have these four new, effective lures for 
undersurface fishing — nymphs for mid- 
water and bottom; caddis creeper for 
use roundabout rocky situations ; the 
trout helgramite for stream-bed, best in 
rippling shallows; lastly, the shrimp 
fished where aquatic weeds grow in 
either lakes or streams. 
I desire trout fishermen to know of 
these baits I have invented and to fish 
the methods I have proved best, and then, 
by practice, to improve on them as well 
as make these baits for their own use 
from instructions here given. I shall be 
well repaid to see my theories in prac- 
tice by others. It is most gratifying for 
me to receive scores of letters from every 
state in the Union and Canada endorsing 
these new theories of bottom fishing for 
trout — and furthermore, they agree with 
me that it may be classed on the same 
high plane as surface wet or dry fly fish- 
ing. We are only using lures to imitate ! 
the same trout food in another state of 
their existence, never before tried below 
instead of the surface. Brook trout are 
the most ravenous for it and the rainbow 
of many western waters feed almost ex- 
clusively on it. Brown trout also prey 
upon shrimp; the larger fish at sundown i 
leave their bottom \ 
lair to forage 
among the weeds 
both for shrimp | 
and minnows. [ 
Several years j 
ago I made a ma- ; 
rine shrimp with a ^ 
covering of cellu- f 
loid; in that mate- i 
rial it is impossible ; 
to construct so small a creature required. L 
I have tried patterns from a native draw- ^ 
ing entirely of cork with partridge hackle j 
for legs, and the segment divisions 
wrapped in silver thread to give a lu- ! 
minous appearance more likely to attract | 
fish down below in deep water. !| 
To fish the shrimp one or more can be f 
attached to a fine leader and allowed to | 
slowly sink, as the cork is hardly big |j 
enough to offset the weight of hook and ji 
{Continued on page 2S3) J 
Fig. 1, First stage Fig. 2, Second Stage Fig. 3, Completed artificial 
