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THE OREGON SPORTSMAN 



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seventeen pounds. To any angler beginning at Walterville I 

 strongly recommend William Gordon as a typical old-time 

 sportsman, ready to help a novice and able to give him a 

 master's advice. No man in Oregon ties a better fly or a 

 finer leader, and he does repairing of rods most skilfully. 

 Fifty miles farther into the mountains is Frizzell's where the 

 huge Dolly Varden abound. This is an ideal mountain resort 

 and well-spoken of, both for sport and comfort, by its many 

 patrons who come from all over the country. The McKenzie 

 ranks among the first-class fishing streams of the United 

 States. The great trans-Cascade road, which follows the 

 McKenzie to its source, gives access to Blue River, South Fork, 

 Lost and Pine creeks, all grand streams, remote in the 

 mountains. 



The favorite food of the Rainbow trout in the McKenzie 

 is the stonefly, which hatches in the late summer and early 

 fall, coming out from the water in the larval stage and hiding 

 among the rocks of the shore, where it shortly emerges from 

 the shell as the mature insect in the form of a gauze-winged, 

 soft-bodied fly, which gathers in great numbers 01. the branches 

 of willows along the stream. Flies that light or fall upon the 

 water are eagerly seized by trout, which frequent the shallows 

 along shore at this time for the purpose of feeding upon the 

 stoneflies. 



An artificial fly resembling this stonefly is the most suc- 

 cessful cast, but inferior to the natural insect. A party of 

 sportsmen, returning from the upper waters of the McKenzie 

 late in September, 1913, report remarkably fine fishing at 

 McKenzie Bridge and Frizzell's, where a large number of 

 fishermen enjoyed great sport. Their catches were made 

 mostly by using the stonefly, carefully hooked, with wings 

 spread, and very lightly cast. Rainbows of two pounds and 

 upwards fell to the lot of several of these gentlemen daily, and 

 many smaller fish, so that a four-automobile party had all the 

 fish they cared to use daily for a week. 



The Dolly Varden does not rise readily to the fly in the 

 Cascade streams, but skilful fishermen catch monsters with 

 salmon eggs. 



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