TO FISH FLOATING FLY 105 



pattern for steady fishing, fishing all the water; 

 and, indeed, upon occasions, this is certainly 

 the case. In the season of 1911 I was out one 

 day with a wet fly fisherman on one of the 

 smaller Berkshire streams, upon which oc- 

 casion we took eight trout from a small pool 

 at the foot of a falls. The wet fly man, who, 

 by the way, has played the game some thirty- 

 hve years during which time he has learned 

 some few things about it, took two fish with the 

 coachman and then cast for fully half an hour 

 without results. In the meantime I busied my- 

 self with the camera, by no means, however, 

 failing to note several rises in various parts of 

 the pool. 



When the wet fly man had gone on about 

 his nefarious business I rested the pool while 

 putting up an olive dun dressed on a No. 14 

 hook. Shortly thereafter I had six good trout 

 for my pains and a still greater respect for the 

 great little dry fly in addition to a good work- 

 ing " bulge " on the veteran. But below the 

 pool I could do nothing with the little dun and 

 I was eventually compelled to return to my 

 favorite golden ribbed hare's ear with which I 

 then killed several good fish. 



For straightaway all-water fishing it would 

 seem that a good fancy pattern, rather large, 



