FOREST AND STREAM 
the writer saw a trout rise in a little rocky pool 
some forty feet down stream. Between the 
rising fish and the angler was another small pool. 
I stood on a rock which towered about three 
feet above the head of the nearest pool. Not 
being over-expert with rod and line, my fly was 
dropped by mistake on the surface of the pool 
at my feet. A brook trout immediately rose to 
it and was not hooked. After taking the fish 
in the furthest pool I “rested” the one in which 
the miraculous rise had occurred. Then silently 
approaching from the down-stream end, and 
more or less skilfully casting the fly on the rock 
on which I had previously stood, I allowed the 
fly to lightly tumble to the surface of the pool. 
Nobody home. I cast over that spot for fully 
fifteen minutes, using three different patterns of 
flies, and employing all the skill I could com¬ 
mand; all to no good result. That trout simply 
decided not to rise, and abided steadfastly by 
his decision. 
There is a belief—I believe it is more than a 
superstition among dry-fly anglers—that when 
a trout is feeding freely upon a certain insect on 
the stream, he will not take an artificial unless 
it is very much like the natural fly. I believe it 
is more than a superstition myself. Be that as 
it may, I had the good fortune to be present 
at a hatch or duns one evening and the fish 
appeared to be gorging themselves on this par¬ 
ticular insect. Capturing a number of the na¬ 
turals I regret to say that I am not sufficiently 
learned to be able to give the name of the dun— 
I looked through my flies and succeeded in find¬ 
ing a certain Halford pattern that resembled the 
live fly very closely. Attaching this to an ex¬ 
tremely light leader, and standing in what Mr. 
Emlyn Gill so aptly calls “the point of vantage,” 
I presented my fly to the feeding trout. They 
appeared to rise to everything on the stream 
except my lure. I persevered for a long time 
with no result. Finally in a rather frenzied 
state I put on a Parmachenee Belle just to be 
mean and frighten those greedy fish. I failed 
completely to do so; in fact three of them 
simply refused to be frightened and were 
brought home for dinner. 
Another fact upon which I think the majority 
of authorities agree, is that trout in waters that 
are fished continuously take an artificial fly be¬ 
cause they think it is a real fly. In other words 
while the wilderness' trout will rise freely to so- 
called fancy” flies tied “in imitation of no living 
creature,” the educated trout of our much fished 
streams cannot be deluded in this fashion. These 
latter much have a natural looking fly presented 
to them m a natural manner. After presenting 
a number of flies tied to resemble real insects 
to a certain trout in a stream upon which one 
always meets many brother anglers, and being in 
a position from which I could plainly see the 
fish in question, I attached the first fly I had 
^ , myself t0 the leader - This fly had an 
Alice blue cotton body with a yellow tag • the 
wings were plucked from a feather duster’ and 
had at one time adorned a turkey; the hackle 
id not exist as there was no suitable material 
for the latter at hand when this remarkable 
specimen of the fly-tier’s art was constructed, 
thinking to myself that at the sight of this mon¬ 
strosity the trout might have heart failure—for 
I confess that I imagined there would be more 
chance of killing him that way than by my “fly” 
—I presented k to him. Yes, that educated fish 
did rush at my “geezer fly”—for that is what I 
named it—and was creeled. (I still have this 
lure and would be glad to allow anyone to 
copy it.) 
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