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Another example, this time alone and 
the pool bounded at the top by a rap- 
ids and a six foot water fall and on 
one side by a sheer rock wall and on 
the other by a sharply shelving bank 
with no cover. The pool was probably 
twenty feet deep and clear as crystal. 
I tried it from the shelving bank flat- 
tened against it as much as possible. 
Not a sign of a fish on any fly worth 
trying. I decided to take a chance on 
a bath and get into the rapids above 
the fall as far back as possible. After 
waiting about half an hour I tried that 
|}and was rewarded about the third cast 
and twice subsequently with the best 
fish taken in ten days and the fact that 
I had to play each to a finish and then 
wade out and round and climb down 
the bank to land him made me feel 
pretty chesty. 
Nos what about freezing? Does it 
pay on the trout stream to remain 
absolutely motionless and give the fish 
a chance to forget your presence and 
thereafter to use as little movement as 
possible. One little experience sufficed 
to persuade me, though I am free to 
confess that I have sometimes wondered 
if trout ever became mentally defective. 
On this occasion I was returning to 
camp and had about all the fish I 
wanted or the incident could not have 
happened. The stream ran with a 
strong current against a heavily wooded 
bank and on the opposite side was a 
gravel bed with a long shallow pool be- 
tween, the deepest part being next the 
fast water. The approach of course 
should have been in the water from the 
foot upwards, but instead I walked up 
the edge on the bar and cast lazily 
across to the fast water. I had nearly 
reached the head of the pool when out 
of the lower end and on the side next 
me rose a good trout to the flies which 
I had indifferently allowed to drift 
across the pool from the fast water 
towards me. He came slowly, plainly, 
uncertain, saw me and went back. He 
must have seen me previously as I had 
passed right beside him. Anyway, he 
came up and took a look and I froze 
and right then+I decided to see if I 
couldn’t catch that fish practically 
right at my feet. I shortened my line 
to about eight feet so that I could drift 
my flies with my wrist and began to 
tease Mr. Trout. Sometimes he would 
rise, sometimes not, always slowly and 
uncertainly, but finally he made up his 
mind and took the tail fly. That expe- 
rience really proved nothing, but it was 
worth noting for the possibilities it 
suggested. . 
This little trick which the big game 
hunter practices with care, appears to 
me to be of sufficient importance in 
trout fishing to be worthy of attention, 
particularly from the standpoint of the 
angler who must approach a good pool 
It will identify you. 
or hole out in the open and cannot fish 
it from a sufficient distance to remain 
concealed. If the flies appear on the 
water simultaneously with the appear- 
ance of the angler, I see no reason 
why the trout should not sense some 
connection between the two, but I am 
satisfied they soon forget the motion- 
less figure on the bank and if the flies 
can be made to attract attention with- 
out further movement, good fish may 
be taken. 
Few animals are more shy than deer 
and yet they seem quite unconscious of 
a strange object unless it moves. On 
one occasion a doe and her fawn came 
along a gravel bar for about two hun- 
dred yards and passed me so close that 
I could have thrown my flies over them, 
and I was standing all the time in the 
open stream up to my waist in the 
water. I saw them come out of the 
bush and froze instantly with the above 
result. 
The questions of where to fish and 
how to fish seem to me to be primary 
considerations, and proficiency in these 
of the utmost importance, next in im- 
portance is the proper presentation of 
the lure. This I shall not comment 
upon except in this, that it seems to me 
that insufficient attention is paid to the 
fact that situations do arise frequently 
in a single mile of water, where it is 
better in one spot to cast a dry fly and 
better in another to cast a wet fly. If 
the water is such in a particular spot, 
say the foot of a rapids, that the nat- 
ural fly would probably be drowned and 
sucked under when it reached that spot, 
use a hackle and let it go under. A 
cock winged fly it seems to me would 
look strange to me were I in the posi- 
tion of the fish, while on the other 
hand the cock winged fly might be very 
attractive on the smooth surface of the 
pool ten yards below. 
aT? my way of thinking, a few flies 
well chosen, from past experience, - 
and used in their proper place are 
worth all the others put together, and 
IT am not at all sure that the fact that 
fish take a particular fly after many 
have been tried, is not pretty generally 
explainable by the fact that the tactical 
position of the angler has been uncon- 
sciously improved or that the fish have 
forgotten the disturbing appearance of 
the angler near the pool. One thing, 
however, is ultimately and absolutely 
predominant, namely, efficiency, which 
I may define as a studied attention to 
detail, keen observation, cautious judg- 
ment and a fixed determination to keep 
off the shady side of easy street. 
Perhaps I have said nothing which 
experienced anglers do not already fully 
appreciate, but let my excuse be that a 
gentle reminder is never amiss. 
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