Management 

 of Flies 



Lowering the 

 Tip 



Favorite Fish and Fishing 



spring brooks, or in the deepest portions of 

 the stream. 



Churning the flies up and down, or wig- 

 ghng and dancing them, should be avoided; 

 the only motion, if any, should be a very 

 slight fluttering, such as a drowning insect 

 might make as it floats down stream. 

 Strike lightly. Should the trout leap after 

 being hooked, as it sometimes does in the 

 shallow water of riflles, lower the tip 

 slightly for half a second, but recover it 

 immediately — in other words it is simply 

 a down and up movement about as quickly 

 as it can be done. 



And talking of lowering the tip — it may 

 not seem out of place to make a few obser- 

 vations concerning that proceeding which 

 some anglers do not seem to understand, 

 or at least do not fully appreciate. The rule 

 of lowering the tip to a leaping fish is a 

 very old one, centuries old in fact, and is 

 founded on the experience of anglers for 

 many generations past. Its usefulness and 

 reasonableness is as manifest in the twenti- 

 eth century as at any former time. 



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