XI 



The Angler and the Fluke that 

 Took a Fly 



" Here where the surf by green Long Island pours." 

 ISAAC MCLELLAN. 



EVERAL speices of salt- 

 water fish will take 

 the artificial fly shad, 

 young bluefish, weak- 

 fish, and, I dare say, 

 the striped bass. I 

 might here also name 

 the fluke, that great flat 

 fish of the flounder fam- 

 ily, for I have caught 

 him on the fly myself, but I do not in- 

 clude the species, because I have no 

 knowledge of its rising to the artificial fly 

 under ordinary conditions. 



My fluke, however, a single specimen, 

 rose fairly to the lure, and was hooked, 

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" The water is the 

 eldest daughter of the 

 creation, the element 

 upon which the spirit 

 of God did first move." 

 IZAAK WALTON. 



