TROUT HABITS; LURES AND USE 



camping and fishing expedition the largest trout 

 was caught by Dr. T - on a number 12 dry 

 fly, a Gold-Ribbed Hare's Ear. He was a 

 beauty, just sixteen inches long and in prime 

 condition. Said trout, who lay behind a cer- 

 tain log resting obliquely in about four feet of 

 water, had twice run off with the Doctor's fly 

 of the same pattern, the last time the previous 

 day, but my friend was grimly determined to 

 have that fish. The lusty warrior rose again to 

 his fly only after fully three-quarters of an hour 

 of almost continuous casting, was snaked out 

 from behind his log, downstream, in jig time 

 and shortly netted. The same lucky or 

 rather, more keenly observing and industrious 

 member of the outfit killed one evening, within 

 two hours and two hundred yards from camp 

 and with scarcely moving out of his tracks, 

 eleven beautiful fish that measured from eight 

 to ten inches. If you want to see the exact 

 spot, note the pool along the bank, just below 

 the rapids on the upper left side of the picture, 

 as you look at the frontispiece illustration en- 

 titled "The beautiful Neversink." 



My attention was attracted one evening on 

 this same stream by the numerous flight of a 

 blue fly over a considerable portion of the water. 

 A couple of miles downstream the insect ap- 

 parently did not appear, but the air was full 

 of them at this point. They had about an inch 

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