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alights. The trout in rapid streams may not be so 

 alert, but I have certainly caught many a specimen on 

 the fly the instant the lure touched the water. 



Mr. William M. Carey, who is responsible for the 

 frontispiece in this volume, is positive trout often 

 jump out of the water in taking the fly. I, too, have 

 seen trout do so. It is not a regular practice of the 

 species, but I easily recall many instances of the trout 

 leaping clear of the surface and taking the fly in the 

 descent. Trout of all sizes will often strike both living 

 and artificial flies with their tails, this either in play 

 or to disable the insect. A writer in Forest and Stream 

 (January 9, 1901) says: "In fishing a trout stream 

 in northern Michigan I was using a cast of a Par- 

 machenee belle and a brown hackle. I was wading 

 downstream, and I came to a place where a tree had 

 fallen into the stream, and after several casts I noticed 

 some small trout following my flies. I cast again, and 

 while my flies were five or six inches from the water a 

 trout four or five inches long jumped clear out of the 

 water, grabbed my Parmachenee belle and imme- 

 diately dove with it in its mouth. I believe the same 

 trout did the same thing several times while I was 

 fishing there/ These were brook trout and they were 

 not jumping except when they jumped at my flies." 



The foregoing comments were submitted to Mr. 

 Southard, and he writes me: 



11 What you say about catching trout in Long Island 

 waters and the mountain brooks of Pennsylvania is 

 entirely true. During the early spring season I have 

 caught, at times, many small trout on such waters in 

 precisely the same way, and in addition there have 

 been days on many different waters where occasionally 

 during the whole of the open season I have caught 



