How to Get Them 



certainly furnish enough variety for the most fas- 

 tidious angler of salmon.. It cannot be denied 

 that there are oecasions when salmon will take 

 things they have never before seen, and which are 

 as different from any of the creations of the fly 

 tier as can be imagined. I took two on the Nepisi- 

 guit, with a bunch of muskrat fur tied to a bare 

 hook, and salmon have been taken in the Resti- 

 gouche with a bunch of red squirrel's fur tied in 

 the same way." 



It will be noticed that my favorite fly, the silver 

 doctor, comes in all his lists, once even before 

 Jock Scott. I have the same opinion of the silver 

 doctor as a trout fly. I certainly would put it 

 first on the list for any fish, at any time, in any 

 place, but, it must be the right size. 

 FlIS^'''^*''^ In all kinds of fishing with the fly, 

 we get most success on the whole 

 by concentrating our attention upon a few pat- 

 terns of proved merit, and persisting with them. 



WORKING AND CASTING THE FLY 



The art of fly casting for salmon bears no rela- 

 tion to any other form of angling with a fly. If it 

 is akin to anything it is to working a minnow, 



». X. . rather than a fly, and the salmon angler 

 iMethod „ 1 , . , ^ , 



I must get all the analogy with trout nsh- 



jing out of his head. In casting, the object of the 



j angler is to throw the fly above and beyond where 



jhe hopes the fish are lying, in such a manner that 



it may be brought by the stream, moving in a 



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