June, 1918 
FOREST AND S T R E A M 
371 
tackle will stand and keep the fish moving. 
If the fish makes a determined bolt towards 
some snags or other dangers, do not try to 
stop him by pulling hard. Instead of pull¬ 
ing hard on the fish, who will only pull that 
much stronger himself, release nearly all 
the strain, and nine times out of ten the 
trout will stop in his rush towards the 
danger spot, then by putting on a little 
strain the fish can be frequently coaxed 
away from the snags into more open water 
where there is no danger. Keep the fish 
moving and do not try to land it until it is 
thoroughly worn out. (I am referring to 
trout of 4 lbs. or more hooked on a very 
light leader.) When the trout turns up 
on its side it is a sign that it is “all in,” 
and you can generally land it in a very few 
moments; but do not be in too much of a 
hurry; wind in enough line so that when 
the rod is held backwards over the shoulder 
the fish will be within reach of your net. 
Now open your landing net, put it in the 
water well down, and bring the thoroughly 
tired fish over the submerged net. Raise 
the net and lift the fish out. Kill it at 
once by a smart tap on the base of the head 
and if you have a spring balance weigh the 
fish at once, because the longer it is out 
of water the less the fish will weigh. 
If at the time when you first hook a fish 
you try to straighten the rod up, i. e., point 
the lower part upright and have the rest 
of the rod bending in a graceful curve, you 
find that owing to the short distance you 
cannot straighten the rod, it is advisable to 
let out enough line until you can hold the 
rod upright; because when the rod is field 
thus the full benefit of its slender, supple 
tip is derived and any tugs or lunges the 
hooked fish may make are taken care of by 
.the sensitive spring of the rod. 
While casting the rod must be held quite 
firmly, but when playing a large trout it 
should be held much more lightly. 
Always try to keep as close to a hooked 
fish as possible and keep out of sight as 
much as possible. 
The advantages of using fine drawn gut 
as before remarked are that fish will take a 
fly on very fine gut, when they will refuse 
and even quit feeding if coarse gut should 
be used; but drawn gut has the disadvant¬ 
age of being very easily frayed and thus 
weakened. 
The act of drawing the gut removes the 
very thin natural covering or outer surface 
of the gut; the consequence is that when 
the leader is thoroughly softened, as it 
should be when fishing, if the leader comes 
into contact with weeds or willow roots it 
quickly shows wear. Undrawn gut lasts 
longer, but there are limitations as to the 
fineness of it; whereas, with drawn gut the 
diameter can be regulated more or less to 
suit conditions or the individual taste of 
the user. I gave in the table in the April 
number of Forest and Stream the diameters 
of x, xx, and xxx; there is still a finer 
grade, viz., xxxx, but this is rather too fine 
to use when large trout can be expected. 
If nothing over i l / 2 lbs. was likely to be 
caught I should not be afraid of using a 
leader tapering down to xxxx, the diameter 
of which is about 0.0064 of an inch, but 
when using the dry fly in waters where its 
use is best adapted trout can be expected 
which will be much heavier than 1 Vi lbs. I 
Therefore xxx is quite fine enough, in fact 
much too fine, for a large majority of fish¬ 
ermen. 
(to be continued next month) 
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