66 PRACTICAL FLY FISHING 



Regular, trout size. 



Padron, black bass size. 



Marana, heavy bass. 



Double thick marana, salmon size. 

 Of these the bass fisherman will use mostly Regular, 

 Padron and Marana, while the trout fisher will use 

 these sizes and then down to the finest drawn gut. 



A prominent English tackle house catalogs gut, and 

 gives its diameter in thousands of inches, as follows : 



Regular (13-14) ; Padron 2nd (14-16) ; 



Padron ist (15-16%); Marana 2nd (16%- 



17%); 



Marana ist (18-19). 



BUYING HINT 



If one buys the selected assortments of gut mentioned 

 above he will be more certain of getting good material. 

 Generally, good gut is smooth and perfectly round and 

 strands with flat places should be rejected. By run- 

 ning the gut through the fingers slowly one can usually 

 detect these bad spots or they can be seen by holding 

 the strand so that the light shines along its length. 



COLOR 



Many anglers draw fine distinctions between colors 

 of leaders although some prefer it just as it comes from 

 the tackle store. There are a great many ways to 

 dye gut, the simplest, and I believe the best, being 

 those given many years ago by Salter : " To stain 

 hair or gut a pale sorrel color let it remain a few 



