TROUT HABITS; LURES AND USE 



effect being of a bluish body with a fine brown 

 ribbing; the wings are of wood-duck, and the 

 hackle and tail are gray-blue. 



The writer knows a man who is an expert 

 angler and fly-tier. A mutual acquaintance is 

 considerably more expert than is this gentleman. 

 The first told me that he knew a third angler 





Blue quill Gordon and dun split- wing dry flies 

 (Tied by H. B. Christian) 



who, though not able consistently to catch more 

 trout than our mutual friend, can and does catch 

 more large brown trout than any angler known 

 to him. And this is how he does it: He casts 

 only over rising trout, and only over rising large 

 trout. He knows when it is a large trout that 

 rises from the character of the rise. (John Bur- 

 roughs has stated that a trout, when it comes to 

 the surface, starts a circle about its own length 

 in diameter.) He uses only the dry fly, and says 

 that if he could have but one fly he would pick 

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