STREAMCRAFT 



In midsummer when the water is low and 

 clear and the trout are most shy, it often is 

 almost useless to fly-fish except at early morning 

 and in the evening, despite best efforts at 

 fishing "fine and far-off," i. e., with finest long- 

 leaders, smallest flies, and longest casts con- 

 sistent with the most delicate manipulation of 

 the fly. Best results may be expected from the 

 floating fly and on the pools. 



Color and Form of Artificials. In fly-fishing 

 most success will consistently be had by pre- 

 senting a fair imitation of the natural fly upon 

 which the fish are feeding, not simply of the fly 

 that is over the water, nor even on the water. 

 (This holds true despite the fact that curiously 

 enough the most successful all-round fly ever 

 designed, the Coachman, is purely a "fancy" 

 pattern.) 4 When several species are on the water 

 at the same time, feeding fish may confine their 

 attention to one |the kind out in greatest force], 

 says the late Mr. H. G. McClelland, "Athenian," 

 of the London Fishing Gazette. Fortunately 

 for the observing angler, different flies that are 

 "on" (a hatch or flight) together are generally 

 dissimilar, as May-fly, Alder, Black Gnat. 

 Perhaps the above observation applies more 

 particularly to larger trout and when the flies 



4 Said to be the invention of Tom Bosworth, royal coachman to Queen 

 Victoria and to Kings William and George immediately preceding. Mary 

 Oryis Marbury's book deals comprehensively with the pedigrees of popular 

 artificials. 



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