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fish, and when it had just passed them he pulled 

 it up-stream slowly. A salmon rushed after it and 

 was hooked and soon landed. In this way he took 

 three fish where I had failed to raise any with the 

 same tackle. This procedure made the fly travel 

 in the proper way for these fish, but it also made it 

 run much deeper in the water. Since that time I 

 have experimented a great deal with the depth of 

 a wet fly and find that this is often the deciding 

 factor between success and failure. The fly can 

 be made to run deeper by allowing it to sink before 

 pulling it, or you can use a fly made heavier by 

 being tied over a lead body. I use many of these 

 flies, especially in small sizes from Nos. 8 to 12. 

 These small flies generally move too close to the 

 surface and it is hard to get them to move far 

 enough down. In the Spring Pool on the upper 

 Restigouche this summer, I noticed three salmon 

 lying along the ledge where some spring water 

 came in. They were about three feet under the 

 surface. The temperature of the river was seventy 

 degrees Fahr. so they were naturally sluggish. A 

 dry fly or any kind of wet fly near the surface 

 failed to move them. I then put on a very fine 

 leader .006 diameter and a No. 12 wet fly and 

 arranged a little fine lead wire at the head of the 



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