By Dan Beard
Fig. 89.
The Grasshopper.
Grasshoppers are another good bait. Often a fish will take hold of a grasshopper when nothing else will tempt him to bite.
Every boy knows where and how to catch these long-legged inserts, but to keep them alive for any great length of time is more difficult.
How to Make a Grasshopper Box
Fig 90.
A, the sliding door;
B, the grasshopper hole;
C, the
air window protected by wire netting.
Take an old cigar box, make a square hole about two by three inches in the lid; cover the hole with a piece of wire netting. Make another hole just large enough to admit a finger. Make a sliding door of a small paddle-shaped piece of wood, fastened with a screw at one end in such a manner as to allow the other end to slide over the hole (Fig. 90). Half fill the box with green grass.
