STREAMCRAFT 



tions to the . rule, the larger ones making in- 

 stanter for the bottom or the nearest refuge of 

 rocks or roots. 



The brown trout grows much faster than 

 either of the others and thrives in water of a 

 higher temperature. 



Irrespective of the wet and dry fly distinc- 

 tion, artificial flies are divided into two general 

 classes, winged and hackles or palmers. Some 

 anglers claim that the latter are the best killers. 

 Undoubtedly they are, when no natural flies 

 are to be seen upon the surface of the water, 

 and when the trout are gorging themselves on 

 the larval or creeper forms, which are moving 

 about under the water preparatory to further 

 evolution that is when the fish are "bulging," 

 as already discussed. These larvae have no 

 wings, so the hackles naturally represent the 

 "fly" that the trout are feeding upon at these 

 particular periods, much better than do the 

 winged patterns. At such times, when dressing 

 your fish at the streamside, you will note they 

 are full of little striped yellow-bellied things 

 that are wingless. It may even be that this will 

 happen in the forenoon, and that in the after- 

 noon these same insects may be rising to and 

 floating on the surface of the water, and at that 

 time you will have very poor success on your 

 palmers, as the larvae have now grown wings 

 and look very different to the trout. 

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