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and some very dark ; and if a meadow-stream is to be 

 fished, or water in which an appreciable quantity of green 

 floating matter is present, then with green leaders as 

 well. Under the latter conditions begin and end with 

 the green leader, unless lack of success indicate that a 

 change is advisable or will make no difference. 



If the water appears brown -colored use your darkest 

 colored leader at all hours. To produce this the ink may 

 be used undiluted, for you need not fear to get it too 

 dark. 



Under ordinary conditions of clear water, commence 

 with a lighter ink-dyed, varying to the uncolored about 

 half-past ten in the forenoon, and returning to the first 

 from three to four o'clock. 



If trout are present, and persistently refuse to rise after 

 changing your cast a reasonable number of times, vary 

 the color of the leader, no matter what it may have been. 

 Finally, be not deceived by the way the leader appears 

 as you look down upon it, for this gives little or no indi- 

 cation of its visibility when viewed from underneath. 



Nine varieties of enamelled water - proofed line were 

 tested, viz.: light pea-green, Paris-green with black spiral 

 thread, light green with a brown spiral thread, translu- 

 cent with reddish-brown thread in close spirals, white and 

 brown in equal proportions, translucent with green and 

 red spiral thread, white with black spirals, white with 

 black threads in diamond pattern, and white with brown 

 threads in diamond pattern. All these were quite visi- 

 ble. The least obtrusive was a line which seemed to 

 have been braided from white silk with two black threads 

 passing spirally around it in opposite directions, thus 

 forming a black diamond-shaped pattern upon the white 

 ground. The water-proofing had given to the white silk 



