Troxit Flies, Artificial and Natural 81 



" There are some places, especially in the State of 

 Maine, and notably 'The .Meadow Grounds' of 

 'The Seven Ponds/ Franklin County, where at 

 times large numbers of small trout, running from five 

 to seven or eight inches, can be caught in a fishing day 

 of five hours and I have known of Anglers catching, 

 though not killing, from three hundred to seven hund- 

 red trout and most of them rose to the flies when they 

 first alighted upon the water. At ' Tim Pond/ Maine, 

 the only place I know where more trout can be 

 caught on the fly than by bait, one hundred to 

 two hundred trout have been caught in one day 

 on the fly, but in most instances these trout take the 

 fly not when it alights upon the water but after it has 

 been played. Such occurrences as these, however, 

 take place where countless numbers of small trout 

 are found in the shallow waters of remarkable and 

 wonderful natural breeding and propagating sections. 

 Instances of this kind prove nothing because they are 

 the great exception and the art of fly-fishing is not 

 brought into play, for one fly is as good as another and 

 the small boy with his fifty-cent pole can catch just 

 as many trout as the man of experience with his 

 thirty-dollar rod of split bamboo. Yet in expressing 

 my opinion about trout rising to a fly when it first 

 alights upon the water I took into consideration just 

 such instances as I have cited. 



"'For your own satisfaction and education/ to 

 quote from my book, 'when the opportunity offers, 

 keep an account of the number of rises you get when 

 your fly first strikes the water and the number you 

 get after you have begun to fish the fly, and so prove 

 for yourself what the real facts are on this subject.' 



"It is unquestionably true that all trout both large 



