68 TROUT LORE 



attached a red bucktail fly. A lusty trout fol- 

 lowed my lure in upon the first cast, but always 

 about six inches behind. Then I resorted to the 

 tactics which I have described elsewhere in this 

 chapter, retrieving the spoon in by a number of 

 successive short, sharp jerks. The wary trout 

 "over-ran," or came to the conclusion that the 

 strange fly with whirling wings that worked un- 

 der water was worth swallowing, for he took the 

 little hook well into his mouth and was landed 

 after an interesting battle. 



