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have, by putting on the artificial fly of this order, 

 taken a dozen beauties in good play. It was because 

 I arrived just in time; the trout were not tired of their 

 course. Perhaps twenty minutes later they would 

 not have done more than eyed my cast. In that case, 

 even if the water were covered with a species of the 

 real fly, it would have been better to have offered 

 something different. Copy nature if the fish be de- 

 vouring not alone because the fly is on the water; 

 they may be tired of it. Sometimes there are flies being 

 taken that are not seen by the Angler, for trout can 

 snap a fly upon the wing. Fly-fishing is not an easy 

 pursuit; 'tis a real science. Rules are good, but we 

 must not fail to suit the rules to conditions. 



No; you are not supposed to use the entire list, for 

 to-day the trout may not favor over two or three of 

 them; to-morrow he may take six of them all differ- 

 ent from those he may show a liking for to-day. It is 

 all very well for an Angler to take but three dozen 

 coachmen and brown and gray hackle for the Western 

 trout, or any trout that is not educated up to the 

 standard of the trout that is fished for incessantly, 

 but I should not like to make a month's trouting trip 

 and take along only three kinds of flies, even if I had 

 dozens of each of the three and if my favorite quaker 

 were one of the trio, no matter where the stream 

 East, West, North, or South. 



Some days after my catch of eighteen I visited the 

 field again and fished from the point where the stream 

 entered the wood down to a beautiful little waterfall. 

 I took twenty-one of fair size one on a yellow Sallie, 

 one on an oak fly, four on an Esquimaux dun, five on a 

 hare's ear, and nine on the quaker. This day I had 

 ninety-three rises not as many as on the day I took 



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