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In tvriting to 
American books, whether suited to the 
streams they fish or not, they insist on 
fishing the method now in vogue and 
Halford flies are the favorites. 
The important and vital question is, 
“Do they capture trout — more trout than 
heretofore?” A truthful answer to the 
question is, they do — at least they say so. 
In all my long career as a fisherman 
I have never seen so many trout of large 
size caught in the Beaverkill river as 
what have been taken this last season, 
early to late, in conditions somewhat 
more rainy and continued fuller stream 
than usual. Should we then be contented 
with this favorable present condition? 
Be satisfied, as it were with enough and 
more than before? I doubt it. Evolution 
goes on, backward or forward, changes 
occur for better or worse ; man will in- 
sist upon a change. 
Of course, various reasons can be cited 
to cause what I consider this “surface 
success.” Causes lying deeper there are, 
such as “a much more abundant supply 
of natural insects ; great batches ap- 
peared almost continually by reason of 
the constant cool rains to raise the river 
above normal, yet hardly ever in flood. 
Another important cause to make good 
fishing was in the writer’s efforts to se- 
cure and have planted a much greater 
number of fingerling rainbows which 
rapidly grew on the increased supply of 
natural insects which do not develop in 
very hot or cold seasons. However, if 
it should happen that next season’s con- 
ditions should be just the opposite, viz., 
a dry, hot summer with low water that 
prevents large hatches of insects, and 
also, if we fail to secure such an abun- 
dant stocking of fish, the favorable condi- 
tion will be entirely different, anglers 
will not get much great success, what- 
ever flies and methods are used. At this 
wave-crest of the dry fly, what does the 
near future portend, or the sign-post 
point to? With the passing away of 
Halford, whose place in the history of 
fishing is well marked, who is there able 
enough to take up and wear his mantle ? 
Lately come forward there is another 
English writer of original strength who 
stands above others (though with very 
different views to Halford). He has 
convincingly set down in his book what 
may suggest a revival of the sunk fly, 
imitation nymphs and other underwater 
baits. 
This w’ritcr, Mr. G. E. M. Skucs, 
whose Minor Tactics of the Chalk 
Stream was published in 1910, proves 
conclusiyely that the sunk fly has its use 
on the shyest chalk stream ; that it will 
kill when the dry fly will not, and that it 
is a form of fishing as difficult and as 
entrancing as the other. His book gives 
fishing a new starting point and opens 
up a new chapter in its history. 
His great merit is that he has revived 
and brought up to date what was a lost 
art. “He has rediscovered and restated 
it in terms suited to our day.” The quo- 
tation here given is from a distinguished 
authority. Major Hills. Further on he 
says; “Since Minor Tactics appeared 
there has been another noticeable move- 
ment in the use of imitation nymphs. 
The underwater life of flies is much 
better known than it used to be and the 
Advertisers mention Forest and Stream. It will 
Forest and Strea^^ 
nymphs have been identified and are be- 
ing copied exact, not taking the form 
traditional to sunk flies but built on new 
lines copying more closely the original 
insect. These are now being used ex- 
tensively and with success on the shyest 
English chalk streams. Whether ulti- 
mately they will prove more successful 
than the old and familiar sunk patterns 
is a point not yet cleared up. Many 
fishermen are convinced that they will. 
Mr. Skues, a most weighty opinion, 
thinks that they will not. Only a long 
trial can decide, and possibly the pat- 
terns of the future may be something 
different from either.” 
Thus it is, evolution goes on to the 
very minute of our day, so we cannot 
predict, or even surmise what is in store 
for the future angler. But what I have 
hoped for some time would come to 
pass may now be due, viz., that fly 
fishers will take the same interest and 
pleasure in the study of game hsh food 
existing below and above the surface as 
they do in game fishing. We shall then 
see the elimination of those detestable 
creatures haunting every stream both | 
night and day who inquire from you 1 
and all they meet, “How many did you 
get ?” However large the number given } 
they always reply, “I beat you !” even j 
if they have to be untruthful in doing so. d 
THE MASTER WILD- 
WOOD SPORT 
{Continued from page 485) 
a canopy of vines and bushes, with the ■ 
late afternoon sun streaming in full upon 
it. This buck was not bedded, but was 
lying flat on sandy black loam. His 
head was laid close along his flank. He 
didn’t look to me larger than a fawn. * 
He must have seen me, but he probably 
concluded that my chances of seeing him 
were poor. Later, after he had been . 
started, and after I had had opportunity ^ 
to examine him closely, he proved to be a I 
full-grown stag of fine proportions. i 
On another occasion, while walking to ; 
my stand through comparatively open 1 
woods, my attention was attracted to 
some movement under certain oak 
bushes to which the dead leaves were 
still clinging. There lay a ten-point ; 
stag; he wasn’t lying normally, but was 
crouched, as a dog often lies, with his 
feet extended in front of him. His head 
was flat on the ground. This he turned 
slightly to keep a wary eye on my ap- 
proach. It was the rocking of his horns 
that I had seen. Had I not seen him, 
he probably would have let me pass, and 
then he would have slunk away on my | 
backtrack. Before jumping, a deer often ; 
assumes this crouching position if it is 
aware of the approach of an enemy; and ' 
that is certainly one reason why it can 
make amazingly long leaps apparently 
out of its bed. It docs jump from its ; 
bed, but it is all set for the performance. ! 
Once again I saw two old does crouch- q 
ing in the manner just described, hut they ’ 
had half risen and appeared to be un- ■ 
decided whether to go or stay. I passed j 
them just to see what would happen.4 
They simply subsided into their beds^ 
again. A doe always appears more un-*| 
identify you. J 
