44 THe Determined Angler 



and for that matter a thousand other conditions might 

 interfere. I fish dozens of streams in different localities 

 several times every month during the legal season, and 

 I have been a fond Angler if not a skillful one 

 since my tenth birthday. Experience on the streams, 

 a true love for nature, and a careful attention to my 

 notebook enable me to separate the artificial flies into 

 monthly lists. No man can class them into weekly or 

 daily lots. 



" When a fly is said to be in season it does not follow 

 that it is abroad on every day of its existence" 

 (Alfred Ronalds). 



The Eastern gentleman who said if he could have 

 but one fly he would take a yellow one, is probably a 

 good Angler, for a yellow fly is a fair choice. If I 

 could have but one fly I should take a ah ! I cannot 

 name its color; 'tis the quaker, a cream, buff, grayish, 

 honey-yellow shade. 



Beaverkill, Seth Green, Ashey Montreal, Dun, 

 Wickham's Fancy, August Brown are killing patterns 

 in the Pennsylvania streams. 



Trout change in their tastes by the month, week, 

 day, hour, and minute. There are flies among the 

 list given for this or that month that they will not rise 

 to to-day or perhaps to-morrow, but surely there are 

 some among the list that will please them, and you 

 have to discover those particular flies, and so, as I 

 have said before, 'tis better to search among twenty- 

 nine than twenty-nine hundred. 



In July of a certain season I waded a stream in 

 Pennsylvania and had these flies with me: Quaker, 

 Oak, Codun, Reuben Wood, White Miller, Yellow 

 Sallie, Hare's Ear, Iron Dun, Brown Palmer, Cahill, 

 and a few others. The first day I killed eighteen trout 



