How to Get Them 



from place to place, and are just as likely to be at 

 the edge of the stream as in the middle, so that it 

 will be wise to move slowly and carefully, with- 

 out floundering about, and every fish hooked 

 should be as soon as possible worked shore- 

 ward; it saves time and temper, and baskets 

 more fish. That done, return to the same spot, 

 and cast in the same place again. It is quite likely 

 there are more where the other rose; if not, float 

 the fly further down, let it sink somewhat, and 

 jerk it sideways. This movement often draws the 

 attention of the fish more than if it floats on the 

 surface. Bass, more than most fish, dart after 

 moving lures; often they take the fly, like a flash, 

 as it drops on the water. Bass like a long, deep 



pool; such a place I know, where two 

 p^y ' small rivers meet. Between the meeting 



of the waters there is a long line of bub- 

 bles, continually flowing with many drowned flies. 

 On each side of this line for 100 feet the water is 

 ten to twenty feet deep. In the early part of the 

 season it is full of a variety of fish brook trout, 

 brown trout, rainbow, bass, large chub and dace. 

 It is very difficult to get near enough to cast un- 

 less in plain view ; therefore few of the larger fish 

 are taken, but at evening, casting fine and far, I 

 often take out of the pool several nice fish, just 

 at the time they are flopping for flies in all parts 

 of the eddy. All pools should be fished from the 

 bottom, casting up stream ; in that way the angler 

 is not so easily visible, for bass are very shy and 

 extremely wary. Caught unawares they are bold, 

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