WHAT THE FISH SEES 



pellers and all other means of breaking the sur- 

 face of the water are based on this principle. 

 Salmon will also take them. My son raised a num- 

 ber of salmon on a bucktailed mouse this summer 

 on the Restigouche, and in fact had several rises 

 on one cast, but he was laughing so at the antics 

 of the fish he could not hook them. He finally, 

 however, landed two, just to show it could be 

 done. It is well known that salmon readily take a 

 spinner or spoon, sometimes even better than a fly. 



I have made some very interesting experiments 

 with wet flies, covering the feathers with the 

 aluminum foil. The reflection was better than 

 with any other substance I have yet found. The 

 flashes were vivid and the reflected image on the 

 lower side of the surface of the water extremely 

 bright. (Figure 23.) I have no doubt that flies 

 of this type will be superior to anything else under 

 certain water conditions, and I am most anxious 

 to try them out again next summer. In high 

 rough water such flies ought to be more visible 

 and therefore take more fish. I have patents 

 applied for on this type of fly. 



Leaders act as light condensers due to their 

 semi-transparency and make both small flashes of 

 light as well as long lines of light and dark lines in 



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