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| one. 
Fly-Fishing Facts for 
Beginners 
(Continued from page 394) 
or less. Put the point of a hook against 
your finger, and then pull it; this will 
give you an excellent idea of how hard 
it is necessary to strike! If you miss 
the fish, your line should not fly up into 
the branches of the trees behind you; it 
should just lift off the water a bit. 
Many an old-timer doesn’t yet know 
how to strike a trout properly; it’s a 
difficult thing to do right. 
If you wish to cast a wet fly over a 
feeding fish, don’t drop it right on his 
nose, but let it alight a few feet above 
him and drift down to him. If he won’t 
take it when presented this way, why 
go ahead and drop it on his nose. Trout 
are queer critters, and it pays to break 
all the so-called rules when fishing for 
them. Lots of men keep jerking the 
fly as it sweeps down stream; I find it 
better to impart no motion to it, except 
under unusual circumstances. The good 
wet fly fisherman drops his fly just 
where he wants it, so that it will nat- 
urally drift down over the spot where 
he thinks there is a fish. This sounds 
easier than it is, when one remembers 
that a tight line must be maintained. I 
might say here that there are fewer 
good wet fly fishermen than there are 
dry fly experts, although to the begin- 
ner the wet fly may look like an easier 
method. 
In general try to match the size and 
color of the flies you see in the air. 
| Don’t overlook the fact that often there 
|are several kinds of naturals on the 
but the trout are only feeding 
Here is a chance for 
If 
the fish won’t take a small fly, try a big 
If they won’t take a light-colored 
one, try a dark one. But don’t change 
flies every minute. You can’t catch 
trout by keeping your line out of the 
water and changing flies. Be sure first 
that you are dropping the fly as lightly 
as thistle down; the fish won’t take 
if you don’t. Then be sure that you 
haven’t frightened the fish by noisy 
wading, or casting shadows over him, 
or showing yourself to him, or making 
waves that roll over him, or by a hun- 
dred other things that might put him 
down. It’s a good rule to blame your 
fly last. 
._ I once wrote what I am pleased to 
consider a poem about flies; it contains 
the very best advice I can give you 
about the choice of a fly, so I’ll repeat 
it here: 
water, 
on one of them. 
If the day be bright, let the fly be dark; 
If the sun be high, let the fly be small; 
But here is a paradox you must mark: 


The fly must be darker as shadows fall, 
It will identify you. 
Until, when the stars are twinkling 
bright, 
The fly is as black as the shades of 
night. 
When very few insects are. flitting 
about, 
The fly may be wet and eH to a 
trout; 
But should ephemeridae be on the wing, 
It’s dollars to doughnuts a dry fly’s the 
thing. 
Then when, prithee tell me, are light- 
colored flies 
The proper creations to make the trout 
rise? 
Ah me, gentle reader, the answer to 
that 
Is as broad as the brim on a congress- 
man’s hat: 
The most accurate picture of this I can 
paint 
Is that sometimes they is and some- 
times they ain’t! 
Unfavorable weather for dark flies, you 
know, 
Is the thing that makes every last one 
of us stow 
’"Mongst the leaves of our fly books, 
heterogeneouswise, 
A first-class collection of light-colored 
flies. 
To the best of my knowledge there is 
just one subject in connection with 
trout fishing about which there is no 
argument: the right way to fish a dry 
fly is upstream. Cast the fly from be- 
low the fish,.and let it float down over 
him, imparting no other motion to it 
but what the stream gives it. In other 
words, try to imitate the actions of.a 
live natural fly floating along on the 
surface, with wings cocked up. In 
order to achieve this the line must lie 
on water that is traveling at the same 
rate as the water in which the fly is 
lying; else the line will drag the fly 
over the surface, and destroy the il- 
lusion of naturalness. There are some 
exceptions to this which are accom- 
plished by throwing the line in slack 
curves, but the novicese will not be in- 
terested in anything as difficult as this 
procedure. A trout will positively not 
rise to a fly that is being dragged over 
the surface by the line; therefore avoid 
drag. The chances are very small of 
the fish rising to a floating fly whose 
wings are not cocked up. To accomplish 
this, cast with the rod off to one side 
instead of straight up in the air. For 
some reason this seems to cock the 
wings. It is vital to keep the line free 
from undue slack. as the fly floats 
down toward you; unless this is done it 
is almost impossible to strike quickly 
enough. Many times when fishing with 
wet flies the trout will hook themselves, 
but this is seldom the case when dry 
flies are used. Don’t fish with too long 
a line, for it isn’t necessary when fish- 
ing upstream. Remember about sha- 
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