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February, 1921 
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considerable distances. On these 
islands the cover is almost impenetra- 
ble. Growths of scrub palmetto, Span- 
ish bayonets, myrtles, and tying vines 
make access exceedingly difficult. Here 
dogs are almost always used, and the 
standers line old trails which cross the 
islands, or even stand on the beach; 
for, strange as it may appear, the old 
bucks, when hotly pursued, sometimes 
resort to the surf, into which they go 
for considerable distances. The fall of 
the beaches is gradual, and the bucks 
wade out until their heads only show. 
I think cne of the oddest sights in wild 
life is to see a deer thus attempt to hide 
himself. He may remain in the water 
for hours. I cnce saw a wounded buck 
swim into the surf at sunrise, and I 
knew he was wounded because his 
labored breathing through the fine 
spray of the surf formed a pink mist 
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near skyline. However, hunting on the 
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NOTES ON THE 
GRASSHOPPER FLY 
(CONTINUED FROM PAGE 75) 
was never more astonished in my life, 
and I just did have sense enough to 
tighten on the fish. 
When I first noticed the fish it was at 
least 20 feet above where my fly had 
fallen, and it was moving quite fast 
so in all probability it had come 
from still further away. 
The fish when landed weighed a 
shade over 2 pounds and had already 
collected a considerable cargo of grass- 
hoppers. 
O N another occasion when the 
grasshoppers were very thick, I 
‘ had located a decent sized fish 
feeding, but had despaired of catching 
it for the reason that there did not seem 
to be a sufficiently wide enough gap in 
the hosts of ‘hoppers which were com- 
ing down stream, to warrant the at- 
tempt being made. I waited, and at 
last saw a fairly open gap in the mass 
of floating insects. This open space 
would, I calculated, pass over my fish, 
so when it was close enough to the 
place wnere the fish was feeding, I put 
my fly in it, and watched it float down 
over the trout. As the fly neared the 
place, I suddenly saw a real grass- 
hopper floating not more than four 
inches away from my fly. 
This was a case of fair competition 
between the real and the artificial, and 
I did not expect to be the winner; but 
nevertheless the trout took my fly in 
preference to the real thing that was 
not more than a few inches away. 
I N making this fly I have endeav- 
ored to copy nature as closely as pos- 
sible and have not added any spots of 
bright color in the endeavor to catch 
the fish’s eye. 
It can be fished either wet or dry; 
further confirmation of this was given 
me by a friend who had very good suc- 
cess when using the fly in the old 
fashioned or wet manner. 
When I first showed the fly to this 
man, who has fished for many seasons 
on the water where I spend my vaca- 
tions, he regarded it of no very great 
consequence, but after seeing the results 
I got with it, he was not averse to giv- 
ing the fly a trial. After having done 
so he became a very enthusiastic ad- 
vocate of the fly. 
This simply goes to emphasize the 
fact that the fly must not be judged 
by its appearance. As I before re- 
marked the fly bears very little resem- 
blance to a grasshopper but when it is 
floating on its side on the surface of 
a trout stream, the likeness is sufficient 
to induce wise old fish to take it with 
very disasterous results. 
I HAVE shown the four steps in the 
construction of this fly and while I 
am about it I might mention once 
again that the colors “Primrose yel- 
low,” etc., are taken from the color 
chart of the Societe Francais des Chrys- 
anthemistes. 
This chart comprises 365 colors rang- 
ing from Pure White, No. 1, to Pure 
Black. To give an idea of the minute, 
graduations of color, there are seven 
varieties of black shown and fifteen 
whites; each color having four shades. 
The chart is bound on the loose leaf 
system, consequently the pages repre- 
senting any particular colors can be 
taken out and sent off to the maker of 
flies so as to insure a proper matching. 
In one of Mr. Halford’s last works, 
viz., “The Modern Development of the 
Dry Fly,” a number of the colors are 
shown, but no where nearly the entire 
list. For those who, like myself, at 
times try to artificially reproduce na- 
ture the chart is invaluable. 
R. L. Montagu, California. 
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