" If there is one day's fishing in the year which the trout- 

 angler looks forward to more keenly than any other, it surely is 

 the first day with his favorite old rod on the bank of some favor- 

 ite stream." R. B. Marston. 



" A salmon will rise again and again at a fly after he has missed 

 it. In this he differs widely from the trout." Lorenzo Prouty. 



" Then I gave him a gray hackle and told him that that was to 

 the trout what bread was to civilized man a staple article of 

 which he seldom grew tired." " Bourgeois." 



' ' I am inclined to believe that more important than fishing up 

 or down stream, more important than wearing brilliant or sober- 

 tinted clothing, more important than wading rather than fishing 

 from the bank, more important than a dry or a wet fly, more im- 

 portant than being yourself visible or concealed, more important, 

 indeed, than any of the different cautions of the books, is it to 

 have your leader absolutely invisible, or, if that is impossible, 

 then at least that it present to the trout no unusual or unfamiliar 

 appearance." Henry P. Wells. 



1 'The idea that each month has its own killing flies is sheer 

 nonsense ; a fly that is good on a bright day in the spring is good 

 on any other bright day, although it must be admitted that trout 

 are fickle in their tastes." Fred Mather. 



" Hackled flies are generally better than those that are winged ; 

 but dress both, and give the fish which they prefer." Michael 

 TJieakston. 



" After fishing for a time with any One fly, and the salmon re- 

 fuse to rise at it freely, we change to an opposite color, say from 

 dark to light, or vice versa, which we find will bring them up 

 when the former fly has lost its attraction or been regarded with 

 suspicion. " Attan Oilmour. 



" The rudest appliances of a savage life have been used to aid 

 the angler at his delightful task, and science has not disdained to 

 aid the modern fisherman in his sport." Oenio G> Scott. 



