STREAMCRAFT 



slow, quivering, and upward and backward 

 movement it is here that the ideal of "no part 

 of the tackle on the water except the flies" may 

 appreciably be realized. In this way trout oc- 

 casionally are stalked and taken at the end of 

 not over ten feet of line. But this does not 

 succeed in broad, shallow, quiet, and open 

 water. 



A friend who habitually fished the smaller, 

 rapid streams that are full of rocks and small 

 pools and was wonderfully successful at this 

 style of angling, always used the finest kind of 

 undressed-silk line and a very light eight-foot 

 rod. He made but a single cast in each likely 

 spot and passed swiftly to the next; nor did he 

 seem to bother especially about quiet move- 

 ments, but oh, with what beautiful, enviable, 

 and almost effortless precision that leader 

 always straightened! and how tantalizingly his 

 flies danced deftly upon the water! I have 

 never known an angler who could quicker cover 

 a stream than this soft-spoken slight six-footer, 

 and victim though he was of the "great white 

 plague," I had all I could do to keep apace with 

 him. The first time the writer ever consciously 

 set foot in trout water he "climbed" up the brook 

 behind him and saw him creel thirty fish in 

 less than two hours. They mostly were brown 

 trout, some were natives, and there were a few 

 rainbows; none were under seven inches and 

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