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parted in the middle and the hackle feather had 

 been securely tied close to the ring of the hook and 

 the other end near the bend, so that it had held 

 on both ends of the feather with the two parts of 

 the hook separated about two and one-half inches ! 

 This fly was, of course, tied Palmer. This fish 

 was really fooled by the feather. 



That same day a fish took the fly with a savage 

 rush and made off down-stream so fast I could 

 scarcely keep up with him along the beach. There 

 was no time to get a canoe. When he turned at 

 last I was all out of breath. After a half-hour or 

 so I began to think I had hooked a really big fish, 

 when he jumped, and I saw one of only about 

 twelve pounds. I could not understand it at all. 

 When he finally gave up exhausted and came in 

 I found that the fish was simply lassoed around 

 the tail with the hook hooked in the leader and 

 not in the fish at all. This method of taking them 

 certainly makes it interesting for the fisherman for 

 a while. 



Illustrating how we never can tell what will 

 happen, I was fishing on the Terra Nova River in 

 New Foundland in a very rocky pool with a 

 straight cliff wall on the opposite side of the stream. 

 I raised and hooked a sixteen-pound fish which 



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