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Another excellent book on dry-fly 
fishing, entitled “Dry-fly Fishing,” by 
R. C. Bridgett, M.A., B.Sc., has been 
published by Herbert Jenkins. 
The author displays in this book a 
thorough knowledge of his subject and 
an inherent love of the art and its con- 
comitant joys and virtues, which love 
seems to be the birthright of a majority 
of Englishmen. Because of this, most 
of the British books on this subject, 
even if they do not always contain 
information applicable to American 
stream conditions, make profitable read- 
ing for all true anglers the world over, 
and Mr. Bridgett’s book is no exception 
to this statement. Everyone who reads 
this book and who has the author’s in- 
born love of the gentle art, cannot help 
but feel that Mr. Bridgett just had to 
write this book. It is the expression of 
an ideal by a confirmed idealist. 
The descriptions, toward the end of 
the volume, of memorable days upon 
some of the famous Scotch streams are 
particularly delightful and should re- 
quire but little persuasion for anyone 
who is a nature lover to read them. 
The technical portion of the book, 
which is of an elementary nature, is 
unique only in that it contains some 
splendid diagrams illustrating the ef- 
fects of drag—the fly fisherman’s béte 
noir. 
The book is illustrated with two col- 
ored plates of natural and artificial 
flies, a number of half-tone plates, line 
illustrations and diagrams. 
The Troubles of Spring 
Trout Fishing 
(Continued from page 205) 
and the water is normal or high, yet 
clear, it 1s best to fish down-stream 
with two small wetflies of a dark brown 
or black which is the color of all early 
flies. Better still, is to fish down-stream 
with a floating reverse brown drake or 
very small shadfly; both are most effec- 
tive where the water is deep and swift. 
Let the reverse flies run anywhere; 
keep them up near the surface and fish 
most carefully over all those places 
where the water turns round into back- 
waters from the main flow of the 
stream. It is such places where espe- 
cially the brook trout congregate to- 
gether in such quiet water lying near 
the bottom to rise after the food which 
is whirled around at the surface. 
Early in the season big rainbows 
and browns leave the deep water in 
which they abide in a semi - dormant 
state during freezing weather and then 
go direct to their accustomed chosen 
abode occupied during the previous 
summer. The place may already be 
Té will identify you. 
tenanted by smaller trout, which are 
immediately expelled, and there, under- 
meath a solid rock, with the raging 
flood above them, it is quite a difficulty 
to place any lure to attract their at- 
tention, because they invariably wait 
for actively feeding until the water di- 
minishes. Yet such a difficult situation 
may be rewarded with the capture of — 
a nice fish if you are stationed some 
distance from the rock to have the line 
run the lure a yard beyond or below 
the rock where you may keep it a while 
to be driven by the flood back and forth 
in fair view of the fish. Should no 
response occur, give out more line and 
reel back in jerks. If that fails with 
the reverse flies, which are excellent 
floaters, it is then advisable to put on 
a %-ounce split shot attached to an 
extra piece of gut, which allows the 
fly to move at will 6 to 12 inches above 
the river bed and the same distance 
from the leader. The water flow activ- 
ity moves the fly and it is generally 
taken; but if not, replace the fly with 
an artificial creeper or large-size 
nymph or a little silver terror minnow. 
Should the trout still be disinclined to 
respond, give up the situation and 
move to the more open, choppy water 
of 8 to 20 inches deep. In such a place 
there is nothing so deadly as the re- 
verse fly fished down-stream, when it 
is made to cover every inch of the 
water by rapid movements of the rod 
tip. It is rare indeed that trout haunt 
the reverse side except in places where 
the surface food is carried along a 
deep running at a bend. On a well- 
fished stream such a situation is soon 
abandoned for safer cover at the mid- 
dle. Places easy to fish are fished often 
and trout seek other haunts unless food 
is very abundant. 
A spring freshet of high - colored 
water is a doubtful problem that may 
furnish results if the usual care is 
taken to fish methods suitable. Large 
dark flies will attract trout far better 
than medium or small light-colored flies 
—wingless, bushy hackle flies weighted 
with small shot are far the best; indeed, 
they are the only effective flies while 
the water is in flood. Every wise an- 
gler should carry along a quantity of 
small shot from the very small size to 
a %-ounce shot. I split my own shot 
with a little hammer and blunt knife, 
keeping the various sizes in a small 
tin box; then, with tiny pliers, I can 
attach them when required and pull 
them off again to fish the surface. 
To properly supply the needed tackle 
for success in early fishing, you pro- 
vide and be prepared to rough, cold 
weather. One great annoyance is a 
frozen line. To obviate that, in a mea- 
sure, if you thoroughly grease the line 
with mucilin to a distance of twenty 
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