June, 1920 
FOREST AND STREAM 
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And he did fight for twenty minutes 
more as though he knew that I was 
roused too. But when finally I had him 
drawn up where I could set my fingers 
into his gills, I ran like a child in aban- 
doned glee and laid him down high and 
dry, where escape was impossible. I had 
won but I took off my Old felt hat and 
stood to do my fallen enemy honor. 
I am sure that I drove the little mare 
most heartlessly as I journeyed home. 
The salmon tipped the scales at eleven 
pounds and was of a kind that had he 
been landed in September might have 
gone to twenty at least. But I had no 
inclination to leave him for fattening. 
DRIFTING WITH THE 
DRY-FLY 
(continued from page 295 ) 
the water after we had taken them was 
regarded with undisguised scorn by the 
bait fishermen and fisherwomen who lined 
the creek sides for the half-mile or sq 
between the last rift and our landing on 
the one Sunday of our stay, and Frank in 
the way of satisfaction for their com- 
ments took fiendish delight in holding the 
trout up for their inspection before plac- 
ing them back in their habitat. 
A T the onset it may be remarked that 
this peculiar dry-fly angling was 
carried on for a distance of a half- 
mile on the deep, slow flowing pool al- 
luded to before, from the tail of the last 
rift to a point a little below the camp, 
where the water became slack through 
the backing up of the reservoir. The 
method is applicable, however, to any 
reach of water similar in character, and 
at any period of the fishing season when 
trout are on rifts and in flowing pools, as 
distinct from their occupation of spring- 
holes in absolutely dead waters. 
The first time I practised it was as we 
drifted somewhat aimlessly toward our 
landing at sundown on the fourth day be- 
fore the termination of our trip. Frank 
was casting the wet-fly as usual and as 
my wrists were tired from the constant 
work of the false casts on the rifts above, 
I dropped the fly on the surface thirty 
or forty feet distant near the south shore 
and broadside of the boat, intending to 
rest my hands. The fly had traveled a 
couple of yards with the boat and we were 
remarking upon its wonderfully natural 
appearance, being unable to distinguish 
the artificial lure from among a flight of 
insects on the water, when a trout of be- 
tween one and two pounds rose and vir- 
tually hooked itself. I made three or four 
more casts in the remaining daylight and 
each time after a drift of from one to 
three yards my efforts were rewarded 
with a trout. 
From this time on during the three 
days remaining to us our fishing did not 
carry us beyond the first rift above the 
pool. Each morning just before sunrise 
we rowed up above the fording place and 
drifted back fishing in the manner de- 
scribed — with a slight modification men- 
tioned below — and always with satisfac- 
tory results. Some desultory casting fol- 
lowed on the nearby rift for a while in 
the forenoon and again in the afternoon, 
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