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Artificial Minnows for Bait Casting
Of the under-water minnows — the wooden minnows are made for both surface and submerged fishing — one of the best is the "rainbow," made by a well-known manufacturer, casting baits. This minnow has a greenback, yellowish sides, and pink-to-white belly. As usually furnished it is fitted with three burrs, or treble hooks, and with spinners fore and aft. The "fancy back" minnow, of the same make, with green and white mottled back and white belly, is also very successful. The same minnow is furnished in red, white and other colors. When moving through the water their action is very life-like, and they cast easily and accurately, the weight being about three-fourths of an ounce. The body material is cedar painted with several coats and enameled, and so weighted that the minnow always runs true. The spinners revolve in opposite directions and, since the minnow itself does not revolve, there is no necessity for swivels. They are made in various sizes, the smallest being the one to use. They are also furnished with single hooks as, indeed are all the other casting baits mentioned herein. The angler who does not favor the use of treble hooks, and many very rightly do not, may have the baits fitted with either single or double hooks to his order.
Phantom minnows are now made weighted for casting from the reel. They are furnished in pairs, the individual minnows made to revolve in opposite directions and to be used in turn to avoid kinking the line. Of these the silver-and-blue is generally the best.
Camp, Samuel Granger. Fishing Kits and Equipment,. New York: Outing Pub., 1910. Print.
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