FISHING WHERE TROUT ARE NOT RISING 



Glut rises are not frequent. You will see isolated in- 

 sects dropping to the surface almost any time, then periods 

 occur when no insects are on the surface or in the air. These 

 almost barren periods occur through April, after the 

 middle of June, in July and August, with notable exceptions 

 when a small rise of duns come up, mostly afternoons and 

 evenings. All through May and the first half of June big 

 rises occur every day, sometimes of several species at once. 



When barren periods occur, if you have some little 

 knowledge of trout haunts, you can try to induce them up 

 to the surface with a well cocked fly. Make a test at such 

 places precisely as if casting to rising fish, with half a dozen 

 casts at each place. The proper fly to choose is impossible 

 to tell unless you have studied my book "Trout Stream 

 Insects," which fully describes what time of day and period 

 of season the various insects develop and rise to the surface. 



Without such a guide you can choose some fly that will 

 imitate insects seen the day previous. Failing that make 

 tests, and change your flies till trout do respond. Such tests 

 will teach you more and be of greater service than if you 

 pick out a fly from some "expert's" favorite list, which, if 

 successful, is of no value in solving the problem. What is 

 required is a systematic method acquired by your own 

 practice. 



CROSS CURRENTS LINE DRAGGING 



The dry fly is so light that wind and current make it 

 impossible, at times, to cast a long distance with any degree 

 of accuracy. One current will force the fly down to you 

 twice as rapidly as another current allows the heavy line to 

 run, thus to cause the line to belly out, forcing the fly from 

 the course intended, to rapidly drown. In such cases, lift 

 the line from the current, recast, if possible, a shorter line 

 from another situation. There is no cure for a dragging 

 line except to fish where the current assists instead of inter- 



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