IN THE MATTER OF FLIES 



In Running Waters 



I 



are times when the black bass 

 will take the fly, particularly in running 

 waters, at all hours of the day, in the 

 glare of sunlight nearly as fiercely as 

 under a lowering sky; but these occasions are very 

 widely apart. I never fish for them in streams until 

 dusk, or when the day is very dark, and then I use 

 a medium size of fly, what is usually known as 

 a large trout fly, tied on a No. 6 Sproat hook. 

 With two of these flies dressed in subdued colors, 

 I whip the head, middle, and tail end of pools, 

 never the rapids, although I have caught many 

 fish in the eddies on the sides of the very swift 

 water, and in one instance had a bass jump four 

 feet across a little rapid at my flies trailing on the 

 opposite side from where he was lying, perdu. 



In Lakes 



As to lakes, it is, I think, a waste of time to 

 fish broad waters for black bass with a fly, unless 



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