TROUT HABITS; LURES AND USE 



of insects and many animals and flowers are 

 peculiar to particular climates and conditions. 

 We can tell anyone who wishes to take the 

 trouble, how the question might very definitely 

 be settled and to his own personal satisfaction. 

 Let him send some prevalent native insects to 

 Mr. Marston and request a report on the suc- 

 cess of a search for their analogs among speci- 

 mens in the collection of British naturals in the 

 museum of the Fly-Fishers' Club. The recently- 

 elected President of this old institution, by the 

 way, is Mr. Walter D. Coggeshall, an American 

 for the first time in its history we believe. 



It was the writer's privilege to meet the Sage 

 of the Neversink, super-angler, and ardent 

 nature student the Summer before his death, 

 alongside the stream that he loved. In the 

 course of casual conversation he mentioned that 

 he was tying some flies for a gentleman in Nova 

 Scotia, after specimens of native insects which 

 had been sent him. Some two years later it 

 was also my pleasure to make the acquaintance 

 of Dr. (now Lieutenant-Commander) Edward 

 Breck, the veteran woodsman and author of 

 The Way of the Woods, at an interesting lecture 

 that he gave in the interest of the Naval Defense 

 League. The Neversink country being men- 

 tioned, Dr. Breck inquired if I had ever met 

 Gordon. I then recalled the incident of the 

 "Nova Scotia gentleman." "Yes," said Breck, 

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