STREAMCRAFT 



In lakes and fairly still water of streams trout 

 stay in or near the shallow water they first seek 

 in Spring after coming out of deep water, till 

 they have finished "scouring" themselves on 

 light gravelly bottoms; then they "school," 

 move to other shallow places, and by the middle 

 of June settle in some good place for the Summer. 



Modifying the ancient dictum as to using 

 small and dark flies in clear water and bright 

 weather, and lighter and larger flies in deep and 

 dark water and cloudy weather and for evening, 

 Mr. Southard says dark flies get more rises than 

 light in the evening, except it be overcast and 

 very dark, when the lighter patterns should be 

 used. He recommends especially here dark 

 flies having silver bodies, as Silver Doctor, Sil- 

 ver Spot, and Silver Gnat. Very light-colored 

 flies are less effective in rapid-stream fishing. 



As a rule, bigger flies will catch bigger fish, 

 though not always; and large trout are caught at 

 night on flies as large as those ever used for bass 

 or even salmon. With such a lure on the night 

 of August 9th, 1918, H. B. Christian caught at 

 Bradley 's-rock pool on the Neversink River, a 

 brown trout measuring twenty-five inches in 

 length and weighing seven pounds. I first heard 

 about this gigantic brownie probably the 

 largest fish ever killed with a fly on the Never- 

 sink, if not indeed the largest on record for the 

 river the following day from Christian himself, 



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