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FOREST 
A N 1) S T R E A 
May, 1919 
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short time but have killed a 4^ lb. trout 
with it on a XXX gut point. 
During last season I caught noth- 
ing over 21^ lbs., but I caught a num- 
ber between IVi and 2J^ lbs., the great 
majority on XXX and a few on XX 
gut points. I think that goes to prove 
that my present “best” rod is not too 
powerful for fine leaders. 
In describing the type of rod to select 
for dry-fly fishing I had this rod in 
view, because I believe it is one of the 
best ever turned out by the makers. 
Last spring Mr. Emerson Hough had 
a very interesting article on fly rods 
in the Saturday Evening Post. 
The gist of his article was that Amer- 
ican rod makers of late years had been 
more intent on producing a tournament 
type of fly rod, than in turning out a 
good rod to fish W’ith. In fishing it is 
not necessary to be armed with a weapon 
that can throw a line a record breaking 
distance, because it would be useless to 
cast such distances (unless fishing a 
wet-fly down stream) because if we did 
place a fly 100 feet away and a fish 
took it, there would be 99 chances to 
one against landing that fish. There- 
fore the long range rod is out of place at 
the water side. What we do want, how- 
ever, for dry-fly fishing is a rod with 
enough power in it to enable us to han- 
dle a moderately heavy line in a strong 
wind, and also to maintain that line in 
the air when drying the fly. 
T he older generation of English 
dry fly men were wedded to their 
heavy lines and incidentally heavy 
(from our point of view) rods, because 
where the best of their dry-fly fishing 
was, they had to contend with strong 
winds; but the newer generation, and 
even some of the older men, are using 
much lighter rods than the Halford type 
of rod and whenever there is a demand 
there will also be a supply. Therefore 
the English rod makers are supplying 
light weight dry-fly rods which are very 
hard to beat. 
Just about the time that Mr. Emer- 
son Hough’s article appeared last spring, 
I received a letter from him in which 
he told me he had, after inspection, de- 
cided on a Hardy rod. I do not advise 
any one to buy a Halford type rod un- 
less the special conditions under which 
he fishes demand a very powerful rod. 
If one’s fishing takes one where the 
trout are extremely sophisticated and 
the use of fine leaders is required, get a 
red as I have tried to describe. It will 
be noticed that the butt joint of my rod 
weighs 4 oz. nearly half of this weight 
is made up of the cork handle, reel fit- 
tings, etc. Oftentimes a “light rod” is 
made with a very skimpy handle and the 
very lightest of reel fittings. I imagine 
that it would be possible to skin a little 
weight off the rod in question but then 
in order to get a perfect balance it 
would be necessary to add a little coun- 
ter w’eight to the reel. 
I have two reels that I use with this 
rod, one is a “St. George” 6^2 oz. and 
