140 THe Determined Angler 



ment when he found the hook was in his jaw? Have 

 you watched him as he bent your slender rod 'like a 

 reed shaken by the wind, ' in his efforts to free himself, 

 and then have you reeled him to your hand and de- 

 posited him in your basket as the spoil of your right 

 arm? If you have not, leave the dull, monotonous, 

 everyday things around you and try it." S. S. 

 Hammond. 



Lifelike Fly. Don't simply drag the fly through 

 the water. Move your wrist gently up and down; 

 thenjfche lure will look and act like a living insect, not 

 a bunch of hair or feather. 



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Nature-like Fly. "In fly-fishing the lure must 

 always be in motion. " Excepting, say I, the instant 

 when it first drops upon the pool. I have caught 

 many of my largest trout sometimes two at a single 

 cast the moment the fly touched the water. 



Dry-Fly Success. "There are no insurmountable 

 obstacles in the way of becoming a successful dry-fly 

 Angler that do not confront the user of the sunken_fly." 

 Emlyn M. Gill, Practical Dry-Fly Fishing. 



Correct Fly-Fishing Line. "Nothing in reference 

 to fly-fishing can be answered with such ease and 

 confidence as the question what line should be used. 

 Unquestionably the enameled water-proofed line, 

 and no other." Henry P. Wells. 



Sunken Fly. "Every bass fly -fisherman knows 

 that to let his flies sink for a depth of six or eight inches 

 is alluring. Under certain conditions, when after 



