The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-06-16
TROUTING WITH A PONY.
FISH NOT AFRAID OF BEAST, so THE ANGLER LURES IF ALONG.

Feeds it Jumps of sugar-A Few Thinks About Flies and the Way to Cast When You Would be Successful on the Stream.
 From .Lachine, Canada, there comes this story to the New York Sun:
 Stalking trout with horses as blinds, as the plains hunters of the west stalk antelope, sounds peculiar at first. But it is trick which an afternoons expe- rience taught an old angler to his profit. Where he lives the streams are too deep to wade, and run through open country. The fish have been taught by many years experience to be exceed ingly cautious. The only way to get them is by fishing from the bank facing 2 the sun, and then with long line and | rod, casting from a good distance X back from the water. and judging of E the strikes by the sense of feeling. K Ona day he noticed a little bunch of Eponies standing at the edge of the Ebrook, cooling their feet. By cautious he contrived to gain a lfooting close to them and made cast t$from there.
 The fish rose splendidly and he got fcouple of half-pounders. By bribing ewoj of the docile horses with biscuits he chanced to have in his pocket he bersuaded them to remain long enough for him to get half dozen, which beefned to be about all the hole con- saifaed.
 axft ha zxyov, fic11i !, ugar and coaxed one of the horses to Fe) along the bank with him. Keeping lose alongside he had capital sport. Probably a COW would have done just Is well. for the point of, the discovery eemed to lie about the fact that the rout have learned to distinguish be- Tween men, their enemies and other an- |nals harmless to them.
 Every fly fisherman knows how ne- essary it is to be out of sight of the Hout especially on bright days. It is b that account a good plan to wade b stream, making casts well in ad- hnce, so that no disturbance of the hter may convey intelligence of ap- toaching danger. The flies should be sry small, and three of them may be led at once, in order to offer some va kty.
 But the eye of the trout is a quickly justed microscope, and is speedily in tecing any fault in the makeup of E fly or in the manner of it's alighting on the surface. Only experience II teach the fisherman the turn of the of the rod, which checks the fall of leader and allows the flies to come urally to the stream.
 There is a fly well known to anglers ich has a very tiny bit of woodcocks S ther tied in, along with black and yellow hackle. The insignificant wn bit looks as though it might be cessfully initiated by tip from a tridge or a brown Leghorn hen, but
 practical men who have tried it sw that nothing but the real wood- k plume will answer for that fly.
 ut the smallest fragment red worm [he eye of your smallest fish on the lt of one of the fly hooks and see
 quickly the trout will perceive it hey feel like eating flesh that day. seldom that there is any studying e by the speckled things. They see antaneously, they act intuitively
 according to their lights, accurate
 st now, when tha water is high in
 largest streams, the fly fisherman
 does not care for wading cannot do
 er than to try casting from the bow
 canoe. Let him get a good pad-
 in the stern of a fifteen foot birch
 canoe settle himself comfortably
 1t the first stay and cast as far as
 ble in front as the man behind the
 [ to drift down stream.
 ben a good, promising pool is
 he'd the guide should hold the ca
 by an overhanging alder branch, or
 irving his paddle into the side or
 m of the stream. The man also
 the large fish, or the sportsman
 them out bodily if they are small.
 casting may be done carefully as
 ssired, as the current will carry