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Show HOW TO FISH FOR TROUT. A'w-iya Csh down a stream. In j ashing up strpiwu the bait iu contiu- ! ually coming home to one's feet ufter ; every c.i?t, and the nearer it up proachea the person, the lesa chance of a bite. It is heat to wade iu .be bed of the stream, an by this tneana oua can ki.ep the bait in Hit water for lony distanced without making a cast. Give up ull idea of usiug artificial artifi-cial tlys; there- is usually no chance to cast them, aud very lew fish will rise to them. Use a light-jointed pole, not over twelve feet in k-nth, with dtlic ite running umir und small compact reel; small hooka, gauged on silkworm gut. Put no lead on your line, as it kiils the artistic nnd natural motion of your bait Uiie angle worms, and these mny ho much improved by being kept a lew days on clean mood id an uncovered, large-m large-m out lied bottle. In bailing the point of your hook it had better not be cov ered. Take a worm by the middle and pierce the hook tnrough a small portion, siy halt au inch; then put ou another in the name way at the name time. There is a great science in baiting, and it chiefly rests in the skill of having the woitns lively, mid with the extremities lelt dangling. When you have a bite, do not pull at all, but strike your fish, as it id called. This ia done by a motion of the wrist, sharp, short, abrupt; not a jerk, a motion which is commenced eharply, but ends almost instantly and abruptly. ab-ruptly. Be iu no hurry to land him; yon can do it at your leisure, stepping back to a Bure foundation before raising rais-ing your fish gently from the water. The great mistake made by those who do not understand this sport is to pull tho moment they have a bite. The result usually is to see the trout wind himselt round about some limb overhead, over-head, or if be latl to be hooked, which ia often the case in pulling, to see the bait and hook in the Bame position. Remember that trout are very shy, and once having disturbed them, il is useless to fish lor them. Harper's Magazino. |