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Title: Fisherman's lures and game-fish food : with colored pictures from life of various creatures fish eat and new improved artificial imitation floating nature lures and chart-plans to show the haunts where fish feed on them in lake and stream
Year: 1920 (1920s)
Authors: Rhead, Louis, 1857-1926
Subjects: Fishes Fishing
Publisher: New York : C. Scribner's Sons
Contributing Library: Gerstein - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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THE IMPROVED FLOATING NATURE LURES 131 of the feather, so Hke the waving tail and fins ofa minnow. After much testing with or withoutphimes, the former has been found to have nodisadvantage, except that the feathers becomeragged from constant cliewing by the fish. Theadvantage is additional attraction from the wav-ing colors. The long, feathery plumes, especiallypeacocks herle, are decidedly more enticing toboth trout and bass. That the simple, plain bodydoes catch fish, I have many proofs of my ownexperience, and I should like very much to dis-card the trouble and expense of feather additionsto the minnows body, and hope to do so whendemand calls for it sufficiently to make it gener-ally satisfactory, replacing it with a minnow com-pact and durable for several seasons. The mostdesirable thing is perfect spacing or placing ofhooks, and making the bait swim upright with arapid motion through the water, which, after in-finite trouble and changes, they now do. While I make, on demand for

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