. 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 arc more gcnteely termed, gentles,) arc, as every one knows, the house-fly in its first stage after leaving the egg. They are plentiful enough all summer. A piece of meat need only be 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 blazmg hot day, poked on to a very small Trout-fly. Just run the hook th
. 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 arc more gcnteely termed, gentles,) arc, as every one knows, the house-fly in its first stage after leaving the egg. They are plentiful enough all summer. A piece of meat need only be 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 blazmg hot day, poked on to a very small Trout-fly. Just run the hook through at the thick end of a couple of them, crossways. Before using your gentles, 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 them. Lato in the fall, you must protect your breeding-box from frost, or else 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 throucrh the body and use them the same as a worm. Fro°g8 are good for Pike, Eels, Trout and Perch. Do not use the bull-frog, but the grass-green fellows. Use a moderate sinker, else you may find master froggy looking at you from the opposite shore, as I >d in the " Spirit^' happened to some bright Waltonian. â ^^>. 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 yourself, by boring a hole through a bullet with a brad-awl, and hammering the ball on some flat piece of iron till you get it to the shape required. 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 mto 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 the Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that
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