TROUT FLY-FISHING IN AMERICA 



On the third cast a three-pound salmon was hooked, 

 played, landed and weighed, then returned to the water 

 unhurt. In less than ten minutes the second angler had 

 hooked and landed another salmon, which weighed over 

 three pounds and returned this fish to the water unhurt. 

 After making a change of flies and casting for perhaps 

 fifteen or twenty minutes he hooked and landed a fine 

 male salmon weighing five and one-half pounds, which 

 he killed and took back to camp for the next day's dinner. 



The fish were rising during all the time both anglers 

 were fishing the pool. Why was it the good caster got 

 nothing and the good fisher of the fly caught three fish? 



Another instance I observed was at a noted large pool 

 in Little Kennebago Lake, Maine. This pool had been 

 fished all day by at least seven boats containing twelve 

 fishermen. The largest fish that had been caught up to 

 four o'clock weighed just one pound. At that time one 

 canoe and one more boat arrived at the pool, and the wet- 

 fly angler in the boat got a rise on his second cast and 

 hooked, played and landed a trout which weighed over 

 three pounds on the scales. Within half an hour he had 

 caught several fair sized trout and then "brought to net" 

 another one that weighed very nearly three and three-quar- 

 ter pounds. Only the two large trout were killed (they 

 were both male fish), and as it was growing dusk he 

 started back to camp. 



During the time this angler was at the pool the other 

 anglers did not catch a trout that weighed as much as half 

 a pound. 



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