DRAG AND DROPPER FLIES 



pool where the fish lie, just where the water be- 

 gins to get deep. The fly is cast across the stream 

 and the rod held high up so that the drag is held 

 in the current and the dropper just allowed to 

 touch the water, jumping from wave to wave. 



The salmon will rise for the dropper like small 

 brook trout and make a great splash. It will be 

 found hard to hook them as many come short 

 and they make such a show that the angler nearly 

 always pulls the fly away from them too soon. 

 However, he can soon get used to it. One day 

 at the Forks on the Upsalquitch I hooked five large 

 salmon in succession in this way when I had failed 

 to raise them by any other method for half a day. 

 At the narrows on Gambo Lake in New Foundland 

 it was the only way we could take the fish, and 

 by this means we got ten or twelve a day apiece. 



It is only under certain water conditions that 

 this method is necessary but when it does work 

 there is no way in which the salmon fisherman can 

 have so much fun, because the fish rise only fifteen 

 or twenty feet away from him and he sees the whole 

 action clearly. I would rather catch a salmon in 

 this way than in any other way I know except on a 

 dry fly. I naturally prefer the dry fly because of 

 the high degree of skill necessary in order to fish 



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