TROUT HABITS; LURES AND USE 



this reason the wet fly is a far better all-round 

 killer than the dry" 



It would seem that trout do generally feed 

 freely on the nymphae at the beginning of a 

 hatch, and that not till gorged on these do they 

 rise to the surface for winged insects. Fish thus 

 taking nymphs just beneath the surface just 

 prior to the insects hatching into the winged 

 sub-imago state, are called by our English 

 cousins, who have made a very refined study of 

 these matters, "bulging" trout. They rush to 

 catch the nymphs as they burst through their 

 shucks, and these quick movements cause a 

 commotion close under the surface very like to 

 that of a fair-rising trout at a surface fly. They 

 then will of course not touch the artificial float- 

 ing-fly, for they take no notice even of the 

 natural one sailing down over them, as they 

 "prefer one course of their meals at a time" 

 (Dewar) . 



Mr. H. B. Christian of Neversink, N. Y., in 

 response to my request, writes as follows: 

 "Without any desire to dispute anyone's pet 

 theory, I will state it as my conviction that he 

 who says that wet flies will invariably catch 

 more and larger trout than dry flies, if that 

 statement be taken to include both the native 

 and the brown trouts, has not used the dry fly 

 sufficiently to give it a fair trial, and perhaps 

 has not had the proper kind of dry flies when he 

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