July, 1919 
FOREST AND STREAM 
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Gently casting a fly on the mirror surface of some lake which nestles deep in the heart of the snow-tipped mountain ranges, 
where trout have never learned the artful ways of man 
used in bait fishing, which is a matter 
of threading on five or six worms on 
a large hook and sinking it in a deep 
hole where the trout are, by means of 
buckshot sinkers. 
The method I speak of is not only 
sportsmanlike, but it follows a plan 
whereby care must be used, and not a 
little bit of ingenuity. It is merely this: 
To the end of your leader you attach 
a number 6 or 8 hook, suit yourself. 
One inch back from this a second hook 
is attached. The first hook is fastened 
to the worm, and the second hook is 
fastened securely further back on its 
body. When this worm is played in the 
water it is very deceiving, for it is ab- 
solutely natural in position only it has 
hooks in it. Start this at the head of a 
pool and by giving it line it will sink 
sufficiently. 
A good way is to start it at the off- 
side of a big boulder, at a pool where the 
water is deadened. Thus, coming down 
with the current, it looks natural enough 
and if seen, rest assured that the trout 
will take it ten times sooner than the 
ridiculous gob of worms and the buckshot. 
If the water is very roiled, of course 
you have to add sinkers in the shape of 
BB-shot, split. Two or three of these 
are sufficient. You will find that your 
biggest rainbows, brown trout and 
speckled trout are caught in the pools, 
below big boulders. If the stream is 
sandy there usually is a reef of sand by a 
boulder and some dead water just beyond. 
Aim for the dead water and trail your 
worm toward the edge of the swift water. 
The trout lie up close to the boulder and 
along the sides of the reefs. This has 
been carefully studied and made sure of. 
I N late years the use of tiny spinners 
has come into great prominence. In 
my capacity as angling editor on two 
magazines, in my newspaper writings, 
and otherwise, I am often asked what I 
think of spinners for trout fishing. I 
have to report that spinners are not only 
an ingenious form, but they are a deadly 
lure at the same time. Often in the 
spring I use them. The reason? This: 
when the water is murky the trout may 
miss a lure in the water. Therefore, 
there is needed an additional attraction 
to it. Here spinnei's come in for atten- 
tion. 
These are generally very tiny, and 
come in the single, also in the tandem, 
or double-spinner form, and are oval in 
shape. There is another form where the 
spinner is single, but longer, which twirls 
well in the w'ater. I use the nickled ones 
mostly; the rays shoot out from these 
spinners whether there is sun or not. 
They reach the eyes of the trout and 
they rise to it when the worm on the 
hook is snapped. I am of the belief that 
the trout think this twirling spoonlet is 
something in the shape of a disabled 
minnow and their curiosity is aroused. 
Fish a pool well with these spinners 
and try to get them down fairly deep. 
Often you will get your largest trout on 
these. The double spinner is very at- 
tractive and deadly. I use both forms. 
It is also a point to make note of that 
artificial flies can be used in collabora- 
tion with these spinners. One style is 
in the interchangeable form whereby you 
can take off one fly and put on another, 
as your fancy desires. For this reason 
get the interchangeable form. The un- 
changeable form has one fly attached to 
it, stationary, and cannot be taken off. 
I have not had much results using the 
half of a minnow hooked to a line, which 
is weighed down with sinkers and al- 
lowed to drift downstream, with the cur- 
rent, one hundred feet or more. I gen- 
erally cut a strip from the glittering 
belly of a shiner and hook it on, and play 
it in the pools off of boulders, and in 
likely looking pockets by obstructions; 
also at the base of rapids. I generally 
get a morning breakfast at my shelter 
tent by this method. I use exquisite care 
though and I don’t go about it as though 
my life depended upon it. A thin strip 
of pork rind, two and one-half inches 
long, by one-half wide does just as well 
as ever for trout. In fact I may say I 
have gotten better results with the thin 
shaving of pork rind. 
When played in the water a while it 
gets pure white. If thin, the water will 
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