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of the time the wet fly has lain on the surface but a 

 scant moment before it was seized. In my great 

 number of articles printed in the universal outdoor 

 press I have always suggested that the fly be cast 

 easily to water, expecting, first, a rise as it lies on the 

 surface; second, failing at this, then the fly submerges 

 and is drawn in the water, to assure the opening and 

 closing of hackles, thus purporting to imitate the 

 drowning, struggling insect. " 



Charles Hallock, author of The Sportsman's Gazetteer, 

 The Salmon Fisher, etc.: "I have nothing more to 

 say. I hung up my trout rod last summer at Chester- 

 field, Mass., in my eighty-second year. So, my fly- 

 book is closed. Let younger Anglers do the talking 

 and discuss ad infinitum. Flies are not on my line. 

 Good-bye. " 



" To frame the little animal 

 Let nature guide thee. " 



GAY. 



TROUT TAKING THE FLY 



"You will observe when casting the wet fly ... 

 that trout seldom rise to the fly when it first strikes 

 the water . . . after years of experience I am pre- 

 pared to state as my opinion that such a thing does 

 not happen once in thirty casts." Charles Zibeon 

 Southard, Trout Fly-Fishing in America. 



This has not been my experience with fontinalis 

 in the streams and ponds of Long Island, N. Y., and 

 the mountain brooks of Pennsylvania, where many of 

 my trout took the fly almost before it touched the 

 water. I have seen trout catch large live flies in the 

 air a few inches over the surface. I think large trout 

 in clear, still ponds easily see the cast fly before it 



