STREAMCRAFT 



spread of wing and a body approximately five- 

 eighths of an inch long, with very long tail- 

 stylets. The whole fly was of a deep blue. 

 Native anglers, who told me that it was prev- 

 alent for about two weeks in June, called it the 

 "blue grannom." Later I learned that a 

 friend, Mr. Will L. Hall, a skilful and enthu- 

 siastic angler of Brooklyn who regularly spends 

 a month or more on this stream, once remained 

 an extra week for the express purpose of study- 

 ing this fly, with the result that he believes it 

 to hatch out only in very shallow water, which 

 would not likely harbor any trout of goodly 

 size, and that while over the water in dense 

 flight for a season, he had not noted it on the 

 water; for which reasons he regards the artificial 

 as being of very little value. 



But observe, study, and contemplate as you 

 may as Albert Bigelow Paine plaintively la- 

 ments in his inimitable Tent Dwellers, 



You may pick your place you may choose your hour 



You may put on your choicest flies; 

 But never yet was it safe to bet 



That a single trout would rise. 



And were it otherwise, angling for trout would 

 be bereft of a vital part of its charm. 



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