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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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page of minnows I am much in-debted to John W. Titcomb, N. Y. State fish cul-turist, in loaning me government color-plates fromhis private library from which to make copies.Also my thanks are due the Hon. Hugh McCor-mick Smith, Chief Commissioner of Fisheries,Washington, D. C, for his courtesy in giving me PREFACE various government documents; Mr. AlexanderWalker, of Butte, Montana, for valued informa-tion given me on the Montana rainbow-trout;and many others, among them those anglers whohave written me of their pleasure and success inthe use of my nature lures. All but three of these chapters have been printedin various sporting magazines during the last fiveyears, but so much has been added and changedto include my latest studies as to make them en-tirely new. The periodicals in which these arti-cles have appeared are the following: AmericanAngler, Field and Stream, National Sportsman,Forest and Stream, Rod and Gun in Canada,Metropolitan, New York Herald, Outing, Outer sRecreation.
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CHAVTEBI. II. III. CONTENTS Introductory Note THE growth AND ABUNDANCE OF ENCOURAGINGGAME-FISH. The Importance of Minnows and TheirAllies for Game-Fish Food .... SUNFISH AND SILVERSIDES—IMPORTANCE OF BREED-ING AND PLANTING—CATCHING AND KEEPING—TRANS-PLANTING. Characteristic Habits of Various SurfaceAND Bottom Creatures that Game-FishEat their RELATIVE VALUE AS BAITS—THE HELLGRAM-MITE—THE CRAWFISH—THE CRICKET THE GRASS-HOPPER—THE LAMPREY THE GREEN AND BROWN FROGS—VARIOUS CATERPILLARS—DRAGON-FLIES ANDDARNING-NEEDLES—THE MOUSE BAIT. New Bottom-Creeper BaitsNot Heretofore Known FOR Trout FISHED LIKE A FLY—TROUT-HELLGRAMMITE CADDIS-CREEPER—YELLOW NYMPH-CREEPER—IMITATIONS. rAGB 1 14 23 44 IV. How Different Foods Affect Game-Fishes 55 mSECT diet induces fast GROWTH—WHAT ARE THETROUT DOING ON HOT DAYS .^—ARTIFICIAL LURES—scientific TESTS—FLAVOR OF FISH DEPENDS ON DIET—WHAT ARE THE MOST SEDUCTIVE LURES ? XI xii CONTENTS V. Bottom Fish Food in Lakes in Relati

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