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time, it is always possible to distinguish the trout 

 which are taking the blue-winged olive by the 

 curious shape of the boil they make in taking it ; 

 a kidney-shaped boil, with two distinct whorls 

 right and left. And if the angler is provided with 

 Orange Quills on No. i hooks, and will pick out 

 these fish, he may count on sport worth remember- 

 ing, though possibly not a spinner may be on the 

 water at the time. Curiously enough, such a thing 

 as a good imitation of the blue-winged olive in 

 the subimago form has yet to be invented. 

 Patterns are tied which will kill an occasional 

 trout, but the Orange Quill, if the rise be anything 

 like a good one, means three or four brace, and 

 probably all big fish. 



One evening, June 24 in 1908, I ran down 

 to Winchester by the 6.50 train to see Eton 

 V. Winchester on the next day, and I got down 

 there about eight o'clock. I had not meant to 

 fish overnight, but I thought there was time for a 

 cast before the dusk drew in, and I picked up a nine- 

 foot Leonard and a landing-net, stuck a damper 

 with a cast in my pocket, and a small box of flies, 

 and got down to a broad shallow. I found several 

 fish rising, and at once diagnosed the blue-winged 

 olive. So I tied on a large Orange Quill and 

 cast to the nearest. Up he came, and was off 

 with a flounder. Without losing a moment, I 

 covered the next with the ensuing cast. The 

 same thing occurred, and I promptly dropped my 



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