ANGLER'S FLIES AND HOW TO TIE 



Scarlet, white, yellow, brown, and black flies are 

 notably good colorations in bass lures of this 

 class, and their efficiency is sometimes enhanced 

 by the addition of small spoon (spinner-fly, but 

 the term bears no relation to the natural flies 

 called spinners) attached in front of the head, 

 and by a thin strip of pork-rind, about one and 

 one-quarter inches long, fastened in the bend of 

 the hook. Spoons are especially enticing to 

 pickerel, pike, and maskinonge. 



Fly-fishing for bass is, as a rule, less avail- 

 able and less successful than for trout. Some of 

 the best is to be had in the flowing waters of 

 certain of the Southern States, and the upper 

 Mississippi is a famous locality. The foregoing 

 modifying sentence was added after receiving a 

 most interesting letter from Dr. J. E. Storey of 

 Beaumont, Texas, prompted by his perusal of 

 this fly-tying chapter when it was running in 

 serial form in Forest and Stream. This genial 

 sportsman furthermore forwarded to me for 

 examination fourteen of his "pet bass-bugs," 

 the result of his own clever handiwork. Three 

 are excellent imitations of a cricket, locust, and 

 a beetle, having cork bodies coated with black 

 varnish, and most of the others are varied 

 bucktail patterns. 



Dr. Storey wrote that his samples are all 

 proven killers, the floaters, bucktail or other- 

 wise, more deadly than the under-water pat- 

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