LONOHOrtN 
some part of the bodies in either gold 
or silver to imitate the delicate silvery 
or golden tints of the insects which I 
think will vastly improve the killing 
qualities of these new nature flies. 
Though not yet tested they will be ready 
for the first day of the coming season. 
To those anglers who are not used to 
very small flies, I should advise them to 
get leaders that are quite fine and 
tapered, and use at least three flies on 
one leader. 
With such a cast it is sure to attract 
trout in midwater while they are “bulg¬ 
ing” or rushing after the many nymphs 
ascending to the surface. The latest 
English style for this fishing, however, 
is to cast up-stream for the flies to come 
back along with waterflow, the rodtip 
guiding the fly cast to either right or 
left of angler till well below him, ac¬ 
cording to position in the stream. Else¬ 
where I have stated there are several 
disadvantages in up-stream fishing, one 
in particular when fishing with extra fine 
gut as these flies require, is that when 
the strike is given it most often pulls 
the hook back from the mouth to miss 
a nice fish. The only remedy for that 
is not to strike but let the fish fix the 
barb, which under ordinary circum¬ 
stances it naturally does by darting 
.away. After the mouth is shut the dif¬ 
ference between 
the soft flesh of 
the insect and the 
hard steel hook is 
instantly felt. 
Owing to the 
new tariff causing 
much higher prices 
and the difficulty 
in getting nature 
flies tied in Eng¬ 
land exactly like 
natural insect pat¬ 
terns, I am pre¬ 
paring to establish 
a fly-tying studio 
where trained 
American fly-tyers 
will work under 
my personal super¬ 
vision in order to 
attain perfection 
in every detail on 
all patterns of flies 
and nymphs on 
good hooks of the 
right size. This 
will, I trust, open 
up a new industry 
that will be fol¬ 
lowed by others. 
Flies tied in Amer¬ 
ica by natives for 
domestic use will 
certainly furnish 
more perfect re¬ 
sults. So far as I 
have gone, my ef¬ 
forts have proved 
most gratifying, because any correction 
or change can be made at once without 
waiting for a final satisfactory copy of 
the pattern that is required by anglers 
for the special type of fishing they have 
in mind or for the kind of water they 
are angling on. 
TUPS INDISPENSABLE 
A LWAYS alert to give my readers 
** first-hand information of the new¬ 
est and best in our craft, I begged our 
editor to print this short note before 
season of trout fishing begins. 
At the present moment this Tup 
nymph is considered by far the best 
trout killer now in use over in Europe. 
The Pink Lady nymph 
I have been told on good authority it is 
not a new creation, but it has been used 
more or less for sixty years in England 
though its form and color has varied 
according to those who tied it. A well- 
known American fly-fisher praised it be¬ 
yond compare some years ago and re¬ 
named it the Pink Lady, and, as such, 
may be got in the tackle shops. Its pres¬ 
ent great popularity is entirely due to 
Mr. G. E. M. Skues, its British cham¬ 
pion, who ties it in two ways (see cut), 
tied dry, with stiff outstanding hackle, 
tied wet with soft pliable sloping hackle. 
"A 
natural insects 
IMITATIONS 
Four corkbody floating stone flies which are deadly killers 
r-i i i 
insect that I call the tiny ruby, de¬ 
scribed in a separate chapter on “Twelve 
new tiny flies and nymphs,” and the imi¬ 
tation fly is almost the same in form and 
color as the Tup. 
Last year I tied quite a number both 
wet and dry for trial in various places 
with most excellent results, and I believe 
it will take its place as one of the best 
trout killers in our streams. 
My friend and neighbor Fred G. 
Shaw, tells a good story as to the origin 
of its peculiar name: In England, a male 
sheep or ram is known as a Tup, and the 
remarkably prominent appendage hang¬ 
ing from its lower body is covered with 
fine, downy hair, which is supposed to 
be the only genuine for this nymph’s 
hackle. After vain effort I failed to get 
this genuine Tup’s hair, and used as a 
fair substitute a very fine pliable hen’s 
hackle. 
UNSINKABLE CORKBODY 
STONE FLIES 
P VERY observing fly-fisher is familiar 
with the luscious, fat-bodied stone- 
flies, of which some species hatch earlier, 
others later than any other angling flies. 
British anglers for centuries have con¬ 
sidered stone flies (both live and imita¬ 
tive) far superior to entice trout than 
any other insect. 
In the north of 
England and some 
Scotch localities it 
is called the May¬ 
fly, rising in vast 
flocks during June 
and July. York¬ 
shire anglers are 
famous in the skill¬ 
ful way they cast 
the live insect on 
the surface where 
it struggles, re¬ 
maining alive for 
some time after 
being impaled on 
the hook. Here, 
i n America, t h e 
live insect is ex¬ 
tensively used on 
Western streams, 
especially on the 
Big Hole River, 
Montana, for large 
rainbows. Many 
Eastern anglers I 
know have tried 
the live insects of 
large size at eve¬ 
nings for brown 
trout but with lit¬ 
tle success because 
the fish are so 
adroit as to nip off 
the fly hundreds of 
times without get¬ 
ting hooked or 
BROWN stone 
EME|tAX.D, 
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Both hackles and whisks are a pinkish- 
cream color, with thick body of pinkish 
red wool, tail wrapping of yellow silk. 
In minor tactics, Mr. Skues says : “Per¬ 
haps this nymph is taken for a shrimp 
by bulging trout.” Personally, I see no 
resemblance whatever. We have a trout 
even pricked. 
Any angler who takes the trouble to 
examine one, especially the large-size 
species, will find the body contains as 
much food as several hundred average 
trout insects. The family of “Browns” 
of which stone-flies form a large part, 
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