In the course of tne present season 
we had pushed up to a certain pool 
which one member of our party had 
just finished fishing over. As we were 
waiting for the light to go off some 
lower water and had a good deal of 
river to fish, we decided to try this 
particular pool once again. My com- 
panion waded out and, casting a very 
excellent dry fly, rose a fish at once. 
The third or fourth cast he hooked a 
twenty-one pounder which he killed on. 
the light La Branche rod in short or- 
der after a splendid fight. And yet 
the fishermen which had just left his 
pool tried both wet and dry flies un- 
successfully. 
In conclusion, if one may use the 
word, it might be worth while for 
summer fishing to try this method of 
a fast-moving fly, especially in low 
clear water where fish can be marked. 
It would seem the use of lighter and 
lighter tackle is becoming more and 
more the custom, and the constant cast- 
ing of very light tackle and the modern 
tapered lines and long leaders, is some- 
thing akin to the joy of handling a 
good trout rod. Everyone knows that, 
at times, salmon will take a fly while 
it is being reeled in and as it comes 
up over them from below, when they 
will not rise to a regular cast. 
Whether or not one turns his rod over 
in fishing, it is necessary to acquire 
sufficient practice in recovering a line 
played in by hand. Especially is this 
true of a heavy fish like a salmon. 
We found, however, that in summer 
fishing there was not the same savage 
rush in taking the fly that accompanied 
the earlier fishing. Notwithstanding, 
there is little to choose in the fighting 
spirit of summer fish which have been 
some time up river and those still 
carrying sea lice. As Mr. Crosfield 
has pointed out, the use of small hooks 
does not require the same force to set 
the hook firm. Nevertheless, summer 
fish must be handled carefully and 
with a light drag on the reel. A heavy 
reel drag would at once break the 
leader as would a very stiff rod. 
Speaking of the never-ending subject 
of reels, I met on my way out this 
summer a gentleman of much renown 
in the salmon world and whose water 
is particularly adapted to dry fly fish- 
ing. In fact, it was on his water that 
the record dry fly fishing in 1921 took 
place to which has been given so much 
publicity. He assured me in‘no uneven 
language that the one hundred light 
multiplying reels which a certain com- 
pany had turned out to meet the de- 
mand in 1922 for dry fly tackle were 
quite useless and burned out in short 
order. On my return to town I heard 
from a very famous fisherman that a 
special multiplying salmon reel built 
this season by Edward Vom Hofe was 
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