sented fly. 
2. Fast moving flies make fishing possible on still pools dur- 
ing the middle of the day. 
3. Bringing a fish to shore, hooked in quiet water by stripping 
the line. 
two fish on the very first draw which 
brought the fly over him. The same 
afternoon on a lower pool I again rose 
a fish in the tail end of a long pool. 
I rested this fish properly and again 
dropped. Finally I was able to bring 
the fly fast over him and he rose at 
once and carried me some little dis- 
tance down river before gaffing. 
HE keen delight experienced in this 
particular method of fishing was 
sustained throughout the winter, and 
this season I was better equipped for 

1. Bringing a fish to gaff, hooked by stripping the line, after 
the same fish had risen and refused the normally pre- 
such fishing should 
the occasion arrive. 
I found, for in- 
stance, that the tip 
of my rod gave suf- 
ficiently not to break 
the leader when set- 
ting the hook of a 
slowly moving fish. 
I found also that 
Mr. George La 
Branche had built a 
somewhat similar 
rod, especially for 
dry-fly fly fishing. 
I noted with interest 
that it was double- 
handed and that he 
recommended the use 
of any good, large 
drum reel that was 
properly filled with 
backing, in prefer- 
ence to the cheap 
multiplying reels 
with which the mar- 
ket abounded. I had 
added, meanwhile, to 
the length of my 
leaders, and, after 
greasing, dressed my 
line thoroughly with 
graphite. 
On arriving at the 
river unusually late 
in the season, I 
found the water tem- 
perature from 56 
degrees to 62 de- 
grees at midday, 
and the dry fly effec- 
tive on certain fairly 
fast water pools on 
occasion. The very 
first evening I 
hooked five large 
salmon by drawing 
in the fly over a 
place where we had 
marked a rising fish. 
One of these fish 
threw the hook, 
thereafter playing 
some time, broke the 
fine leaders about 
bottom obstructions, 
while the fifth was landed. All of 
these fish were savage when hooked 
though they rose leisurely. 
For the following ten days I moved 
up river where our fishing was more 
orthodox, and it was not till the last 
of the trip that we had the exact op- 
portunity to again try out this method. 
On our return we hooked and killed 
fish on each occasion when the method 
of stripping in the line was used. 
Some of these fish we killed, others 
broke our leaders. It was not, how- 
ever, till the very last day’s fishing 
that the most interesting experiment 
developed. 
HE day was bright and the pool in 
question had been rested over Sun- 
day. We had taken most of our fish on a 
Wilkinson and Mar Lodge. Generally 
we had taken fish on a Wilkinson 
double 8 when they would not rise 
for anything else, that is, anything we 
tried. On this particular occasion I 
was anxious to record our efforts, and 
had installed on the bar below the 
local warden to crank a _ cinemato- 
graph. I had even fitted up a light 
rod and an extremely fine line and 
leader. My guide was particularly con- 
fident and had great faith in the Wil- 
kinson. This fly I tried in various 
sizes. In order we tried every fly we 
happened to have from No. 4 to No. 10. 
We tried a few dry flies which up river 
had been successful. We tried sunken 
flies and a nymph, stripping in both 
flies. Fish were breaking and skidding 
over the entire surface of the pool. 
They were often within fifteen feet of 
the canoe. We had anchored in most 
every section of the pool where the an- 
chor would hold. The pool had been 
thoroughly stirred up. Below us in 
probably twenty feet of water a fish 
rose. We had fished from seven-thirty 
till ten-thirty without a rise. In itself, 
even with a light rod, three hours of 
such continuous fishing was rather ex- 
hausting. I decided to try one more 
size of fish. 
It so happened that I had a number 
of 5/0 single and a few double flies. 
Most every salmon fisherman car- 
ries some particular fly. As_ shall 
be mentioned later, I am partial, on 
occasion, to 5/0. I put on a Mar 
Lodge, 5/0, cast, and played in the 
line over the remaining ripples of 
where we had marked a rising’ fish. 
As the fly came over the fish rose and 
was hooked. This salmon took the fly 
tenderly, so unlike the salmon of the 
early season, and I had plenty of time 
to turn over the rod and set the hook. 
I played this fish forty minutes be- 
cause of the fine leader, during which 
time it took out over ninety yards, two 
hundred and seventy feet of line, and 
proved to be a 19%4-pound male. This 
fish was killed on the fifth of August 
and fought as hard as most fresh run 
males. 
Convinced that we had the right- 
sized fly at last, and concerned with 
the size and not the pattern, I imme- 
diately changed the Mar Lodge 5/0 for 
a 5/0 Black Dose, and, marking a fish, 
again cast and drew in the line. The 
second fish was hooked in like manner 
on the first cast and when killed 
weighed ten pounds, breaking five 
times and almost walking on its tail. 
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