Fish and Fishing 



wings, reddish orange hackle and tail ; another, with 

 silver body, black wings, gray hackle and tail, 

 and the last had silver body, white wings, gray 

 hackle and tail. These four flies gave such good 

 account of themselves that my friends and I are 

 content to use no others, at least until they stop 

 raising fish. These flies are tied upon a No. 8 

 Pennal sneck hook. To rise trout and hook them, 

 I strongly and firmly believe size has more effi- 

 ciency than color of wings; and a No. 8 hook, or 

 even smaller, works the trick from spring to fall 

 (that is, in running streams). Lake fishing is an- 



Exact size of author's silver and gold body trout flies. 



other matter, and will be treated separately. 

 Rules cannot be rock-bound, as you can always 

 regulate the color of flies by practice, 

 anc ^ mv P rac ti ce has proved beyond 

 doubt that black, brown, and gray- 

 colored flies used together and varied in size ac- 

 cording to circumstances, will at any time kill as 

 well and even better than the most elaborate col- 

 lection arranged for every month in the year. If 

 you have the three colors mentioned you cannot 

 be far off the mark, as they comprise all the lead- 

 ing colors of insects in nature. A white fly is of 

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