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bring myself to believe that it can be "distinguished by 

 the fish at all. So I use both names indiscriminately, 

 and generally both together. The later pattern is 

 sometimes tied with reversed wings. 



Several friends to whom I have recommended the 

 fly have found it very successful. Mr. J. B. Lawrence, 

 Jr., of New York, wrote me on the 9th of August, 

 1894, as follows: "Mr. Fox and I spent two half- 

 days and one whole day fishing at the Grande De- 

 charge, and had as good sport as any reasonable man 

 could ask for. We did not take any over three and 

 a half pounds, but took several two and a half to 

 three pound fish. ... I found the B. A. Scott one 

 of the best flies for the ouananiche, and am much 

 obliged to you for telling me about it." Sometimes it 

 is the experience of fishermen that the fish will take 

 any fly that may be offered them. Mr. Robert E. 

 Plumb, of Detroit, writing on the 28th of June, 1894, 

 said: "I divided the flies [B. A. Scott or General 

 Hooker] among our friends, and all of us took fish 

 with them. Indeed, we did on everything we used. 

 One fly seemed to do the work about as well as 

 another and no better. We had a delightful time at 

 the Grande Decharge and lots of fish." 



Red is not, generally speaking, a good color to enter 

 into the composition of ouananiche flies. As a rule, the 

 fish will have nothing to do with it. Mr. McCarthy 

 mentions the Red Ibis among the flies that he enu- 

 merates as useful for ouananiche fishing, and I sup- 

 pose that he must have tried it upon such a day as 

 that described above by Mr. Plumb, when one fly 

 seemed to do the work about as well as another. 



