Dec. is, 1906.I 
FOREST AND STREAM. 
933 
FLIES AND TROUT. 
Mr. Jas. Dobson refers to a trout being caught 
at short intervals upon different patterns of flies, 
and therefrom draws the not unnatural inference 
that one fly is as good as another upon the 
angler’s line. This is no doubt true enough 
when trout are feeding ravenously, but it is as 
much beside the mark when the fish are well fed 
and have become discriminating in what they 
eat. If any angler has any doubts upon a trout’s 
ability as a very wide-awake entomologist let 
him try the simple experiment of feeding a few 
insects to ope lying in a convenient position— 
as, for instance, below a bridge, or under some 
large, overhanging tree, where he can have a 
good view of the fish without himself being 
seen, I. am supposing a large, welLfed trout 
of epicurean ta«tes, the very sort of fish in fact 
which we are all most anxious to have in our 
creels, but whose capture is no such easy matter. 
Well, to such a one let the angler throw a few 
insects of different sorts, one after another, and 
watch the results. He may, for example, take 
some bluebottles and wood flies; two very 
nearly allied flies, between which probably five 
persons out of ten would scarcely discriminate, 
but which possess very different attractions for 
trout. Let him flick in three or four wood flies 
in succession; they will all probably be taken at 
once. Then try a common bluebottle; the trout 
will probably closely inspect it -and refuse to 
take it, though he will take the next wood fly as 
readily as before. Or the observer may try a 
wasp .or some other insect. If after half an 
hour’s or so sport in this manner he is not per¬ 
fectly persuaded as to the trout’s ability to dis¬ 
tinguish “sweet cake” from “brown bread.” all 
I can say is that he is' harder to convince than I 
was.— County Gentleman. 
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