FOREST AND STREAM 
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April, 1922 
down stream several yards while the fly 
remains fully cocked at the surface at a 
much longer peroid, — very often in 
choppy, rough water. 
In other words, the most perfect dry- 
fly cast is made while wading down the 
stream side you observe a rise, or maybe 
several at once. You at once take a po- 
sition at the stream edge, — if reachable, 
directly opposite the top rising fish ; with 
the body slightly turned you cast out, 
higher up stream, guiding the tip along 
as the fly floats down and you follow it 
while it floats to the very end of the 
runway, your leader and line being so 
far away as not to disturb the line of 
feeding fish. In so doing you avoid the 
frequent hard casts required in rapid 
water, for one single cast w'hich, if well 
cocked, glides over the entire school of 
feeding trout, is almost certain to take 
all, one after the other. I have watched 
many experts succeed and fail at various 
; times, in addition to my own experi- 
i ments which are always conducted on a 
I practical “test” basis. The following ex- 
I ample — one of a great many — will prove 
; my theory. I w'as one of four anglers 
; casting with all our skill in a fine pool to 
i about twenty large trout actively feeding 
on a glut of floating march browns. The 
I one fishing up-stream succeeded no bet- 
r ter than the two side anglers or one 
( above, fishing down with wet flies. None 
had a true copy of the insect that would 
float; if they had, and cocked it right, 
H better results would have occurred, as I 
proved at a subsequent rise in the same 
r- pool by fishing the side-cast down the 
1 middle runway. In this instance, as in 
many others, the correct imitation had to 
i be used, no matter what method — up or 
! down — was tried. 
Experienced anglers must be. aware 
I’ that flies cock, alight, and swim better 
with the side, low cast than the overhead 
i cast. Trout always lie at the bottom, — 
I they cannot see anglers wading the side 
stream twenty feet distant, not even the 
; wader above them. The case is different 
; with high banks when the angler’s wild 
movements dark against the sky would 
I ’ frighten any animal. Trout cannot dis- 
tinguish the angler from rocks just be- 
hind him, even so close as three yards. 
,, So what is the use, the absurdity of 
!i ploughing up raging flood to escape sharp 
: eyes of trout. Yet most anglers do it, 
■ because Mr. F. M. Halford says it must 
be done on his own streams — the Itchen 
I and the Test. 
I Since this was written I waited nearly 
i a year in order to make thorough tests 
of a new dry-fly — known as the “Re- 
j verse” dry-fly, invented purposely to fish, 
properly cocked, down-stream. These 
: flies are tied with the insect’s head placed 
■ just over the bend, instead of at the hook 
eye. Detailed description will be given 
in a later article. 
More than half a mile a second 
The terrific muzzle velocity of the Imp — 
the Savage .22 hi-po^er rifle 
Accuracy with the Imp — the Savage 
.22 hi-power — means more thansimply 
precision. With the Imp it means snap- 
ping out the little bullet with a spin 
that hurls it head-on at the amazing 
speed of half a mile per second — accu- 
rate and true for the longest sporting 
distance. 
You don’t have to guess how much to hold 
over; you don’t have to guess how much to 
hold ahead — you simply hold dead on. The 
wicked little bullet bites in right where you 
aim. 
An all around- gun — the Imp — for foxes 
and wolves or deer and moose — for the farm 
or for the wilderness. Safe and accurate at 
short or long range; the 
bullet will not glance. 
SAVAGE 
ACCURACY 
It’s in the boring and rifling. 
Every Savage hi-power 
smokeless steel barrel is 
bored again and again un- 
til the surface is as smooth 
as science and machinery can combine to 
make it. 
And each caliber has its own individual 
twist in rifling, proved by innumerable ex- 
periments to spin its bullet most perfectly 
for accurate, long-range flight. 
For big game hunting, accuracy must be 
backed up by strong action, swift and sure 
action. Savage rifles have this reserve power 
loo per cent. A Savage won’t jam. 
YOUR PREFERENCE 
Savage makes bolt-action and lever-action 
models — equally accurate, equally strong. 
A caliber for every kind of big and me- 
dium game. 
Ask at your dealer’s, or write for the in- 
teresting catalog describing our complete 
line of firearms. Address: 
SAVAGE ARMS 
CORPORATION 
Department A-2 
Utica, N. Y. 
Owners and oPrraiors of the 
J. Stevens Anns Company 
executive and Export Offices: 
JO Church Street, New York 
Savage manufactures the fol- 
lowing high power cartridges; 
.22 hi-power; .250-3000; .30-30; 
.300 ; and .303. 
Savage ammunition is recom- 
mended for its remarkable ac- 
curacy. 
For best results we advise that 
Savage ammunition be used in 
Savage rifles when possible. 
In 'Writino tn 
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