SELECTION, CARE, AND RIGGING 



the leader. While not more than two flies for 

 lake fishing and only one for the stream or any 

 dry-fly work is preferable, there are many good 

 anglers who like to fish with three flies on the 

 cast when fishing with wet flies. One objec- 

 tion to multiple flies is well illustrated in the 

 predicament of an angler who through hooking 

 a two-pound chub on his stretcher-fly risked the 

 loss of the three-pound trout at the same time 

 fast to the hand-fly. Flies should be fastened 

 to the leader about forty inches apart. The 

 bottom dropper- or bobber-fly, next the reel- 

 line (also called hand-fly), should have the longer 

 snell or connecting piece of gut which suspends 

 the fly; and it should be the larger or largest 

 fly, as the cast will alight better when the end 

 fly stretcher-, tail- or point-fly is a small one. 

 The middle dropper-fly snell may be four or 

 five inches long when tied. 



There are numerous plans for attachment of 

 a dropper-fly. Do not tie 

 any dropper-fly loops in your 

 leader after the manner 

 shown in Fig. 4, because this 

 method does not give a di- 

 rect pull and therefore one 

 strand of gut is likely to cut 

 another (A). This form of Fi - 4 



loop tends also to hang parallel with the leader, 

 thus favoring the fly's fouling snell's winding 



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