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was using them. Understand that I do not go 

 back' on the wet fly, which I use every year, 

 with good .success, when the streams are high 

 and after dark; and after dark you will take 

 some very large trout. But I would recommend 

 the dry fly for daytime fishing. I have gone to 

 a pool after several fishermen had fished it 

 with wet flies without taking a single fish, and 

 with some of them yet fishing the pool, while 

 others had gone ashore to sit down and watch 

 me, and have taken fifteen trout from that 

 pool on a dry fly; and you can take a good- 

 sized old brown trout on a dry fly when he 

 wouldn't look at any kind of a wet fly. For the 

 best sport, by which I mean taking more of the 

 nicest fish, from streams in which the brown 

 trout predominates, I would recommend that 

 considerable attention be devoted to dry flies." 

 This testimony concerning the brown trout's 

 partiality to the dry fly is particularly signifi- 

 cant because this species is the trout indigenous 

 to Europe, where the dry fly originally was 

 "hatched." The native Eastern brook trout 

 is easily distinguished from the brown by its 

 darker back with vermiculate or "worm-track" 

 markings similar to those on the common 

 mackerel by its yellow spots interspersed with 

 the red, by the blue border to the red spots, 

 by the white and black edge to the red fins, 

 and by the seeming absence of scales. The 



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