MEETING TROUT ON THE "JUNE RISE." 1G9 



of Salmo fontinalis. They did not breed on the moun- 

 tain top. They cannot ascend the stream. Where did 

 they originate ? When, and how did they manage 

 to get there ? I leave the questions to savans and 

 naturalists. As for myself, I state the fact— still 

 demonstrable— for the trout are yet there. But I take 

 it to be one of the conundrums " no fellah can ever 

 find out." 



P. S.—A word as to bugs, lures, flies, etc. Now I 

 have no criticism to offer as regards flies or lures. I 

 saw a Gotham banker in 1880, making a cast on Third 

 lake, with a leader that carried twelve flies. Why not? 

 He enjoyed it • and he caught some trout. Even the 

 guides laughed at him. I did not : he rode his hobby, 

 and he rode it well. Fishing beside him, with a five- 

 dollar rod, I caught two trout to his one. What 

 did he care ? He came out to enjoy himself after 

 his own fashion, and he did it. Like myself, he only 

 cared for the sport— the recreation and enough trout 

 for supper. (I cannot cast twelve flies.) 



Now my favorite lures— with forty years' experience 

 —stand about thus. Tail fly, red hackle; second, 

 brown hen ; third, Romeyn. Or, tail fly, red ibis ; 

 second, brown hackle ; third, queen of the waters. Or, 

 red hackle, queen, royal coachman. Sometimes trout 

 will not rise to the fly. I respect their tastes. I use then 

 —tail fly, an angle worm, with a bit of clear pork for 

 the head, and a white miller for second. If this fails I 



