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trout, but where the depth of water is so I 
great that it is difficult to interest the 
old residenter in any surface or near- 
surface lure. Such old-timers have often 
turned cannibal, and their removal is a 
benefit to the stream as well as a feather 
in the cap of the angler. 
S uppose the season to have ad- 
vanced. Buds are starting here and 
there; skunk-cabbage and Jack-in-the- 
Pulpit are rearing their light green above 
the purple of an occasional violet ; the 
snow-water has gone and the trout are 
commencing to take a deeper interest in 
life and meals — but as yet there are few, 
if any, hatches and hence little or no 
surface feeding. While still too early 
for the dry-fly man, this season marks 
the beginning of sport for the fisher of 
the wet-fly. 
There is no excuse for adding to the 
thousands of words already printed on 
the subject of fly-fishing by a detailed 
description of the well-known methods; 
but a short discussion of a plan of cam- 
paign varying from the ordinary will do 
no harm, and may add a few fish to the 
creel of the early-season fisherman. As 
has already been said, trout at this sea- 
son are not surface feeding, except pos- 
sibly in the early evening, when for a 
few moments a premature hatch may 
tempt them from the deeper waters ; but 
they are hungry, and hence more active 
in the pursuit of minnows and under- 
water larvae. Therefore, while the con- 
ventional wet-flies dragged across the 
surface may excite little interest, the 
same flies more or less deeply sunken are 
apt to delude the feeding fish. 
At this season it is good practice to 
fish the wet-fly much as the spinner was 
handled a week or so previous; that is. 
it may be allowed to drift through the 
rifts and down into the deeper holes, and 
then retrieved, with the usual manipula- 
tion of the rod tip, allowing the fly or 
flies to sink or drift back at intervals. 
In fact, fishing a swift current down- 
stream almost implies the use of a split- 
shot or two to carry them to the proper 
depth ; not only is this taboo to the 
Simon-pure angler, but it destroys the 
action of the fly. My preference is to 
use one fly only; to cast up and across 
and to attempt absolutely no manipula- 
tion except to keep the line taut enough 
to be able to strike the fish ; a fly worked 
in this manner into the deep holes and 
under shelving banks is very effective. 
At this season, too, flies may be used 
which would not prove exceptionally 
taking later in the season; among these 
particularly are the Parmachene Belle 
and the Royal Coachman, which are easi- 
ly seen even in high, roily water and are 
apparently struck because of their re- 
semblance to a small minnow, the buck- 
tails, either natural, brown or black, 
which the trout probably mistake for 
water beetles or larvae of some sort ; and 
; the hackle and palmer flies tied either 
; without wings or with wings very small 
and flat. These last-named are probably 
; accepted for some unfortunate insect 
swept down by the current, which they 
represent much more naturally than 
j Would a similar fly dragged against a 
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