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■haps help a little. In giving a list of dry flies 
to be bought to start with, I do not think you 
will go wrong on the following—Alder, Black 
•Gnat, Coachman, Olive Dun, Pale Evening Dun, 
Spent Gnat male, Spent Gnat female, Jennie 
Spinner, Soldier Palmer. Hares Ear, Wicke- 
ham’s Fancy and White Miller. If you wish a 
larger assortment, you may add with advantage, 
Red Spinner, March Brown, Silver Sedge, May 
Fly, Cow-Dung, Crannom, and before going 
home with an empty creel, and such things have 
happened, put on a Parmachenee Belle for luck. 
After wetting a fly, you will need a bottle of oil 
to restore it to a floating condition. Any dry 
fly oil put up by a reputable tackle dealer will do. 
There are various containers offered for this 
oil, but I use the original bottle in a little home 
made leather pocket with a flap buttoned over 
the cork. Tie a string tightly around the neck 
of the bottle, and fasten it to the cork, and 
then you will not have to hold the cork when 
you are applying the oil to a fly—neither will 
you lose the cork, a fairly important item,— 
when you bend over to net a fish. Pin the bot¬ 
tle holder to your coat in a convenient spot with 
a heavy safety pin. After applying oil to your 
fly, you must remove all surplus drops by “blot- 
Imitation flies used in dry-fly fishing, the two top rows show¬ 
ing sizes commonly employed in England and the bottom 
row larger flies used on American streams. These are 
exact sizes. 
ting” the fly against your coat sleeve or in your 
handkerchief. If you do not wish to ruin your 
coat, you may stitch a piece of cloth to a piece 
of celluloid and fasten this cloth-side-out on 
your sleeve. 
I do not wish to pose as a dry fly expert, but 
if those who are will overlook any remarks I 
make that they feel are inadequate or mislead¬ 
ing, I will try to give the prospective dry fly 
angler a few words of advice. In the first place, 
do hot expect to catch trout with dry flies on 
the opening day of the season. The ideal time 
for this method of fishing is later when the 
streams are lower and clearer. The chief aim 
is to imitate nature to the highest degree and 
certainly a fly gently dropped on the surface 
which floats with the force and direction of the 
current looks more like real food to a trout, than 
a fly which splashes down and swims with “pow¬ 
erful strokes” against and across the current of 
the stream. If you can possibly master the art 
of fishing upstream, do so; and use every pre¬ 
caution to avoid any drag on the fly from your 
line. Cast so that your fly and your line drop 
in water which is moving at approximately the 
same speed. If the channel is on one side of 
the stream and the water on the opposite side 
is flowing slower, do not cast across unless you 
know how to drop your fly upstream from your 
line. As few of us can do this pretty trick well, 
it is better to cast your fly and line all in the 
channel or all in the slow water, thus avoiding 
drag to a great extent. 
Always bear in mind that your first cast in 
new water is the most important. If your first 
cast is a poor one, and it always seems to be in 
my case, do not immediately retrieve your fly, 
but let it float a little. Between each cast yon 
must remove any water from your fly by mak¬ 
ing several false casts through the air. Keep 
your fly well off the water in doing this, so that 
you will not frighten the fish; they are not ac¬ 
customed to seeing a fly move the way it does 
in false cast. 
If you are fishing “wet” and come to a slow 
moving stretch of stream or a nice pool, attach 
a dry fly for your first few casts and you will 
be delighted with the way “Brother Fontinalis” 
comes up to your fly—if he does come up. To 
me there is great fascination in seeing a trout 
take a dry fly; much more than in feeling him 
take a wet one. If you know that there is a 
good fish in some particular rapid and you 
cannot get him interested in a wet fly, let your 
dry one float down head-over-heels if necessary 
and it may look good to him. 
When you start out, try to pick a fly from 
your book that resembles the flies on the stream 
that day, and do not waste your time and energy 
changing flies every few minutes; rather use this 
energy in presenting your fly naturally and keep¬ 
ing out of sight as much as possible. Stalk your 
fish intelligently: keep the sun in front of you; 
be quiet; drop your fly gently, avoiding drag; fish 
the nearest water first; lead your fish away 
from unfished water so as not to frighten his 
comrades; and always remember that a trout 
is a wise, wise, fellow who will not take your 
fly because you happen to be lucky, but because 
you are clever enough to make him think he is 
going to get a good meal. If you are not suc¬ 
cessful with the dry fly the first time you use it, 
by all means do not get discouraged. Fishing 
“dry” is a difficult thing to do right, but when 
you do attain skill in this method, you will find 
that it plays a very important part in the art of 
trout fishing. - • 
St. Paul, Minn., had a novel auction sale the 
other day. It was conducted by Carl Avery, the 
State Game Commissioner. He sold a lot of 
shot guns, rifles, and other accoutrements confis¬ 
cated by the game wardens from hunters. The 
State netted $600 by the sale, but the singular 
thing about the auction is that the fowling 
pieces, as a rule, were purchased by the former 
owners. This is the first auction of its kind. 
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