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be used. As he is allowed no quarter when 

 hooked but, as the inelegant phrase of the 

 vernacular has it, is "hossed out," stout tackle 

 is essential. This is the small boy's regular 

 plan of campaign, with a "wum." 



Most Popular Artificial Flies. However rapid 

 the development of the new style of fishing with 

 the dry fly and however potent its charm upon 

 the angler, it can never supplant the old way, 

 the use of the wet and sunken fly. It must 

 however be credited with the stimulation of 

 closer study of natural stream entomology and 

 of the endeavor to make the artificials truer 

 copies of the real insects. 



The previous discussion of fly patterns has 

 had the new style chiefly in mind. This is not 

 to say that these patterns are not effective for 

 the older way; and we already have noted that 

 many anglers prefer to use the dry-fly patterns 

 largely in both styles of fishing, and the dry-fly 

 forms as well. But we must not forget that 

 there were wizards at the trouting game gen- 

 erations before such a thing as a dry fly was 

 known generally in the land, and that fly- 

 fishing, if not quite as old as recorded history, 

 is certainly antiquated, having been practised 

 at least nearly two thousand years ago. About 

 200 B. C. Theocritus records fishing with "the 

 bait fallacious suspended from the rod," but 

 gives no further details of the lure employed. 

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