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had a good record of catches to show as a re¬ 
sult of this system.” 
“No, I am quite aware of that. But the rea¬ 
son is simply that men will not persevere. They 
strike a bad day, when fish are off the take, and 
the hook gets the blame of it, and is laid aside. 
The morrow finds them whipping away as usual 
with a killer, or a Mar Lodge, or a Rintoul, or 
some other incongruity. Probably the day is 
favorable and they are successful, and their care¬ 
fully worked out theory is thrown to the winds 
to the great joy of the gillie.” 
“There is truth in what you say, but the 
weight of river-side opinion is against you. No 
doubt we have far more flies than we require, 
1 and, as in golf, the more intimate we become 
with the subject, the shorter will the full list 
of our clubs, or in this case lures, be. A poor 
golfer is always selecting new clubs and a poor 
fisherman is always changing his flies. But why 
be satisfied with theory? Here is your chance 
to make a name for yourself. Set out and 
prove it.” 
“Nothing I should like better,” he said, “but 
the difficulty is in facing the gillie!” 
I agreed that that was a difficulty, not insur¬ 
mountable, but serious and subtle. However, I 
once had a friend who faced the music. His 
theory was' that salmon were color blind and 
he kept his eyes open for a color blind man who 
would direct him how to busk his hooks. I was 
bidden do the same, but though color blind folk 
must be numerous enough in the world, neither 
of us has been so fortunate as to find one. 
Failing this gentleman, my friend theorized 
that as every hook is seen by the fish against 
the skv. the only contrast it is aware of is black 
and white. Proceeding on this thought he in¬ 
vented. a large assortment by ingeniously com¬ 
bining these two colors. Many of his produc¬ 
tions were smart, killing-looking lures, and they 
went further—they killed on occasion. In the 
main they resembled a black doctor. One thun- 
der-and-lightning-looking fly was quite the best 
variety of the black and white and river order 
I have ever seen, and succeeded well in clear 
water. 
My friend would not infrequently send off 
a gillie to fish over a pool with one of these 
flies. If the inventor was in sight the pool was 
thrashed out in great haste, and a second turn 
given to it with an old favorite. If the author 
was out of sight the “special” was at once 
booked and I have no recollection of a gillie 
ever capturing a salmon with one of these flies. 
One or two of them secured praise, but only 
the evil eye led the gillies to test them, and the 
inventor himself treated them unkindly. It was 
their fate to be on mostly when nothing was 
taking. Funny, do you say? Not a bit of it! 
The gillies worked that oracle! 
But my Southern friend gave me another 
poser—question and answer. “Why is it,” he 
said, “that a Jock Scott takes more fish in a 
year than all the other hooks put together? 
Why, simply because every man, when he goes 
down to the river, puts on a Jock Scott to start 
with.” 
I shook my head. 
“Do you mean to say you don’t? Don’t you 
put on a Jock Scott first thing when you go 
down to the water?” 
“Certainly not,” I said. “It’s a queer fisher¬ 
man who puts on any fly without first consider¬ 
ing the condition of the elements.” 
SPRING. 
“Eftsoon with fishing rod and line and can 
of squirming bait, the younker to the creek will 
hie and sit him down and wait. And when the 
wily sucker fish with skill he doth ensnare, a 
more exultant soul than he will not be any¬ 
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swing. The dullest-witted lout on earth should 
know that it is spring when Punxsutawneyites 
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