. Frank Forester's fish and fishing of the United States and British provinces of North America [microform] : illustrated from nature. Fishing; Fishes; Pêche sportive; Poissons. 492 AMERICAN FISHES. Maggots (or as they are more geuteely termed, gentl'>8,) arc, as every one knows, the house-fly in its first stage after leaving the egg. They are plentiful enough all summer. ^^. piece of meat ncoi only bo left exposed and there will be plenty of them. They are a capital bait for Trout, used when the water is low, and best in a blazing hot day, poked on to a very small Trout-fly. Just mn tho ho
. Frank Forester's fish and fishing of the United States and British provinces of North America [microform] : illustrated from nature. Fishing; Fishes; Pêche sportive; Poissons. 492 AMERICAN FISHES. Maggots (or as they are more geuteely termed, gentl'>8,) arc, as every one knows, the house-fly in its first stage after leaving the egg. They are plentiful enough all summer. ^^. piece of meat ncoi only bo left exposed and there will be plenty of them. They are a capital bait for Trout, used when the water is low, and best in a blazing hot day, poked on to a very small Trout-fly. Just mn tho hook through at the thick end of a couple of them, crossways. Before using your gciitlcH, put them in oatmeal; it hardens and cleans them. A copper-cap box with fine holes drilled in the lid is a good receptacle for then), Lato in the fall, you must protect your breeding-box from frost, or cIho they all go into the chrysalis state. Always use the largest. Crawfish, also is a good bait for almost all kinds of fish; hook them through the body and use them the same as a worm. Frogs are good for Pike, Eels, Trout and Perch. Do not use tho bull-frog, but the grass-green fellows. Use a moderate sinker, cIho you may find master froggy looking at you from the opposite shore, as I read in the " Spirit,''^ happened to some bright Waltonian, Fig. Fig, 2, Fig. 3. For bottom fishing you require sinkers of various sizes, according to the strength of the current. These you can easily make for yoiiiMclf, by boring a hole through a bullet with a brad-awl, and hammering tho ball on some flat piece of iron till you get it to the shopo rt'(|uired. You must then pass a loop of some strong line through it double, splicing it sailor-fashion, and drawing the spliced part out of sight into the hole. With these you require a swivel; but you may buy sinkers with a brass swivel ring at each end, which are by far tho Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that m
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