134 THe Determined Angler 



To Carry Flies. Do not use your large fly-book 

 when wading. Put a half dozen seasonable patterns 

 in your hatband, and a dozen more in a little book 

 that will not bulge your pocket. 



Variety in Flies. You can never carry too many 

 trout flies on your trip. Fill your fly-book and stick 

 them all over the crown of your hat. Trout do not 

 like the same fly at all times any more than you are 

 fond of feeding on one sort of meat. 



Clumsy Flies. Most trout flies are too large, and 

 they frighten more trout than they attract. 



A New Fly. " ... an altogether original fly, 

 unheard of, startling, will often do great execution in 

 an overfished pool. " Henry van Dyke. 



The Floating Fly. "The floating fly seemed to 

 have the effect of arousing the trout to action at once. 

 During the week I estimate that there was an average 

 of ten rises to the dry-fly to every one to the same fly 

 wet." Emlyn M. Gill. 



Fishing the Dry-Fly. "The dry-fly is clearly out of 

 place on the wet-fly water as the wet-fly is on the dry- 

 fly stream. After all, it is only in the style of deceiving 

 and hooking fish that dry-fly and wet-fly Anglers . . . 

 assuming both to be good sportsmen . . . can much 

 differ. In nearly all other fly-fishing matters they 

 must naturally be at one. It has already been said 

 that the dry-fly is quite out of place in many trout 

 streams. The dry-fly streams, though they have 

 increased of late years, are still and ever must be in 



