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liable to break when fastened to large fish, 

 owing to medium wire and large bend. 



The Dublin-Limerick has all the advantages 

 of the Sproat, but it has a larger wire. 



The Limerick and Pennell are favorites for 

 medium-sized fish ; for large fish these hooks 

 from their formation are liable to cut out. 



The wire from which the Carlisle is made is 

 Loo small for any work except worm fishing, 

 or for medium-sized fish. 



The Aberdeen has no advantage over the 

 Kendal, which has a square bend, and that 

 formation does not jjrevent a live minnow 

 breathing so readily as any other formation of 

 hook. It is, therefore, a useful one for still 

 fishing, or paternostering with live minnow. 

 For small flies (000 to 4) the brown Kendal- 

 Sneck, Pennell-Sneck or Pennell-taper (in 

 numbers these run the otlier way). 



The points of the first and second are bent 

 slightly sideways. This formation is good in 

 small hooks, but a disadvantage in large ones. 

 A slight twist in a small hook helps the point 

 to penetrate, but in a large one there is a ten- 

 dency to scrape. For flies on No. 9 and larger, 

 the Sproat. If it is desirable to have the fly 

 sink, the Dublin-Limerick or O'Shaughnessy- 

 Limerick is a good one in small and medium 

 sizes. 



Gut, as a rule, should be fine and clear and 

 smooth, and in much fished waters the finest 

 that can be successfuly manipulated. 



The size of the fly must be sufficiently large 

 to be seen by the fish, but not too large for 

 fear the fraud may be detected. The size 

 must depend upon quantity and color of water, 

 as when the water is high and dark-colored, 

 and when the wind is high and the water 

 rough, the flies should be larger than when 

 water and weather are the opposite. 



When trout are not much flshed for larger 

 flies prove successful, but when they are shy 

 the smallest flies raise the most flsh. 



Form of flies does not take a prominent part 

 in the capture of trout, as hackles and winged 

 flies with similar shade of bodies are successful 

 on both smooth and rapid streams. 



Color and size have much to do with the 

 artificial in successful trout fishing. As strong 

 a point as I can cite is in relation to the duns 

 — blue, olive and yellow in their various 

 shades, and their progenitors — the brown and 

 red Spinners. From May to September they 

 are insects of the water, and trout feed on 

 them. With hackles and winged flies, with 



bodies composed of the same shades as the 

 naturals in their seasons, one may rely upon 

 his artificials at any time, weather and water 

 being in order. W. 



Canada, November 20. 



Selling Trout all the Year Round. 



Mr. S. H. Greene, of Portland, Oregon, in 

 a recent letter to The Mornfng Oregonuin 

 on the sale of trout at all seasons, opens up a 

 condition in Oregon that will disgust and de- 

 press every trout fisherman of that State. We 

 quote a portion of Mr. Greene's communica- 

 tion: 



Section 14 of our fish and game laws, as 

 published and distributed by our very efficient 

 protector, Mr. H. D. McGuire, reads as fol- 

 lows: 



" Every person who shall, within the State of Ore- 

 gon, during- the months of November, December, 

 January, February and March of any year, catch, kill, 

 or have in possession, sell or offer for sale, any moun- 

 tain, lake, brook, or speckled trout, caught from any 

 fresh water, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor. Every 

 person who shall, within the State of Oregon, take, or 

 attempt to take, or catch with any seine, wire net, or 

 other device t'lan hook and line, any m.ountain or 

 brook trout after the passage of this act, shall be 

 guilty of a misdemeanor." 



Last week one of Mr. McGuire's special 

 deputies purchased at one of our markets 

 some bright, lovely trout, which the dealer 

 represented (truthfully) as mountain trout. 

 Mr. McGuire had the dealer arrested at 

 once, as was his bounden duty. The case 

 was tried before Justice Geisler, and his honor 

 took the matter under advisement until this 

 morning. The defense did not question the 

 fact that they were mountain trout, but they 

 produced an affidavit from some man over at 

 Yaquina bay that he caught them himself 

 with hook and line in salt water. This morn- 

 ing Justice Geisler discliarged the defendant, 

 and now, in less than an hour after the decis- 

 ion, every fish dealer in the city of Portland 

 is displaying openly for sale the finest of moun- 

 tain trout. I am not prepared to saj^ whether 

 they all have their affidavits ready. But the 

 market man is all right. It isn't likely that 

 he is going to sit down with his hands in his 

 pockets and talk to his patrons about close sea- 

 son for trout, etc., when his customer can step 

 around the corner to the dealer's more enter- 

 prising competitor, and get all the nice black- 

 spotted mountain trout he wants, fresh from 

 the ocean. 



And what must these so-called sportsmen 

 think of their own idiotic record; days of toil 

 and hardship among the boulders and rapids, 

 and brush of some little stream away back in 

 the mountains for a few dozen measley trout, 

 when, if they had only been members of the 

 legislature, they would have known that all 

 they need do to secure plenty of mountain 



