Getting Out the Fly Books 



the head of an accessible fish, various 

 salmon-flies fastened to a cord. One fly 

 after another- passed, apparently unnoticed, 

 certainly unheeded, until the "Jock Scott" 

 was used. Then the fish seemed to be un- 

 easy. The experiment was repeated several 

 times, and as often as this fly came over 

 him his ordinary indifference gave place to 

 disturbance; he would move himself, often 

 turning his head away or moving sidewise, 

 until the fly had passed. Whether this dis- 

 like was due to a resemblance of the fly to 

 something else, or to a recollection of an 

 unpleasant struggle with such a fly, can 

 only be guessed. The sporting of salmon 

 with leaves which float down stream, and 

 with the appearance of which they must 

 be quite familiar, seems to be due to pure 

 frolic, like the circling " walk-arounds " 

 of leaping trout, sometimes seen in an 

 eddy. 



About special flies this article has noth- 

 ing to say. Out of the enormous list of 

 special patterns of salmon-flies pertaining 

 to various rivers, a certain peerage of "gen- 

 eral " flies has been gathered by the suf- 

 frages of universal experience, and to it, 

 from year to year, others are elevated. But 

 the steady way in which these standard pat- 

 terns displace the special ones from their 



