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June, 1920 
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with more or less cooking, taking of pic- 
tures and lounging about the woods with 
an eye out for things cf interest. Then 
at 4 o’clock we wouk go on the rift for 
a couple of hours, Frank with his wet-fly 
and I with dry-fly. After that came the 
drift to camp with the favorite pastime 
of the day. The two hours preceding 
nightfall were taken up with the half- 
mile of drifting to our haven, as fussing 
with grease and oil and flies, playing and 
taking off fish and rowing back a ways 
to have another try at a large trout which 
had missed the fly — or more properly 
which I had failed to hook- — consumed 
considerable time. On these occasions 
Frank’s entire attention was devoted to 
the management of the boat and his fish- 
ing consequently ended when we headed 
down-stream morning and night. 
After the first attempts it was found 
necessary to somewhat modify the system 
of drifting. Heretofore, throughout this 
fishing trip, I had been using a long- 
shank cowdung on the new number 5 
hook of the English scale exclusively, 
Whether rift or Stillwater casting. I do 
not believe in the subtle powers of dis- 
crimination with which trout are com- 
monly endowed, and in furtherance of 
this heretical view, or at least for my own 
satisfaction, it is my invariable practice 
to employ but one or at most two varie- 
ties of flies, wherever I may be placed 
or for however long a time. 
We learned on further trial that the 
fly followed the course of the boat most 
satisfactorily by laying out the line at a 
little less than a right angle from broad- 
side of our craft — that is, a trifle up- 
stream; with this modification the fly re- 
tained its relative position with the drift- 
ing skiff, regardless of the current, with 
but slight variation. Even then with 
frequent greasing of line and leader and 
generous anointing of the fly with heavy 
mineral oil, the suction of the adven- 
titious eddies and minute whirlpools cre- 
ated by the high water tended to drag the 
fly under. This tendency was overcome 
by having recourse to the use of a seven 
foot- English dry fly leader with a tippet 
for a dropper fly spliced two feet back 
of the stretcher tip, several of which I 
discovered among the contents of my fly 
books. To this tippet I attached a num- 
ber 5 gold ribbed hare’s ear, whose heav- 
ily dubbed body and bushy hackle bore 
sufficient oil to not alone float itself in 
the troublesome vortices but to likewise 
lend support to the over-wrought cow- 
dung, still doing duty as the tail fly. 
Thus was our angling conducted through- 
out the three days remaining to us. 
Double rises often followed the addition 
of the second fly to the cast and one fly 
proved as efficacious in the enticement of 
the trout as the other. 
The question naturally is asked : 
Wherein lay the necessity or the ad- 
vantage of this unusual method of fish- 
ing? The answer is that the use of the 
boat, a craft ancient enough to have 
served as Noah’s dingey, was rendered 
imperative by a stage of water which 
prohibited wading, when I should have 
much preferred to wade. True, wv could 
have anchored at intervals as we had 
done on the rifts and pools above some 
days earlier, and according to the prac- 
