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six feet long, and the line is of the same length. 

 Then they throw their snare, and the fish, at- 

 tracted and maddened by the color, comes up, 

 thinking from the pretty sight, to get a dainty 

 mouthful. When, however, it opens its jaws, it 

 is caught by the hook, and enjoys a bitter 

 repast a captive." 



But, hold! Perhaps that Hippourus was a 

 floater after all? We have somewhere seen a 

 translation which would have it that the author 

 said they dropped it "gently down stream." 

 We can hardly credit them, though, with being 

 "exact imitationists" unless the Macedonian 

 wasps sported red vests! 



Dealing then with fly-fishing in the broad, 

 what may be said here as to what flies to use 

 of the hundreds named, and stocked by the 

 dealers? Kit Clarke's favorites were Brown 

 Hackle, Montreal, Cahill, Coachman, Black Gnat, 

 Grizzly King, Professor, Caddis, Scarlet Ibis. The 

 last two he also commended for bass lures. Here 

 is Thaddeus Norris's "big four:" Coachman, 

 Black Gnat, Red Spinner, Red (Brown) Hackle. 

 Nessmuk pinned his faith to these, for use in 

 Northern Pennsylvania: Queen of the Water, 

 Professor, Red Fox, Black May, Lead- Winged 

 and White- Winged Coachmen, Red Hackle, 

 Seth Green. For the Adirondacks, he specified 

 Scarlet Ibis, Romeyn, Coachman, Royal Coach- 

 man, Red Hackle, Red-Bodied Ashy, Gray- 

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