AN ANGLERS NOTES ON THE BEAVERKILL 



upon, also the Black Spinner. The Orvis's Red Fox is 

 also the correct pattern for the Beaverkill fly, which is 

 tied in a score ot" different ways. 



A brown trout will take anything from a Parma- 

 cheene Belle to a brass button. I met a fisherman last 

 year who was greatly exercised over a brown trout he 

 had caught under the bridge below Joe Cammer's ; he 

 thought it looked mighty big and had opened it and 

 found a snake eighteen inches long inside. That was 

 a good story, but not half so good as the famous one 

 told by Jerry Durgin, down in Maine. Jerry was out 

 with a " Sporter " when they " hooked a trout that only 

 measured twelve inches but weighed two and one-half 

 pounds ; they cut him open, when out jumped a mink ; 

 they caught the mink and took it home and put it in 

 a cage, and by and by it had two little minks." An old 

 friend of mine who lives on the Beaverkill told me 

 with considerable excitement of a fisherman down be- 

 low Rockland who had taken three trout that weighed 

 over three pounds apiece. " Did he get them on a 

 fly *? " I inquired. " Yes," he said, " on a fly, or grass- 

 hopper, or something." 



One Sunday in the spring of 1899 ^ ^^^^ ^^ ^^^ bridge 

 at Craig-e-clare, watching the trout rise to the natural 

 fly on the water. I observed that the smaller ones 

 jumped clear out of the water for the fly, but noticed 

 also that the big fellows never came q?/He to the top, 

 but moved about freely, apparently feeding on the 

 sunken flies. The idea occurred to me to use a small 



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