The sun., 1918-07-14
CHARM OF ANGLING
Is UNCERTAINTY
Impossibility to Standardize
Sport: Otherwise Would
Become Business.
FEW FLIES FOR TROUT
~ SWITCH CASTER.

Even II the natural elements over
which we have no control could be made
to conform to any monotonous standard
the human factors would still go a long
way toward preserving the balance
Nature furnishes the Ash and each OF
us il privileged to employ the means OF
capture that seems most satisfactory.
Every sportsmanlike method (and
some that are not) Is defended by ar
dent partitions.
The adherents OF some methods are
again subdivided according to the stand
ards of equipment or practice to which
they subscribe. While a few in each
class may waver in their allegiance. the
greater number are Arm advocates OF
the system they have adopted. Witness
the reluctance with which many anglers
admitted that the dry fly was the equal
OF the wet.
When LIST of colors for trout flies
according to season was published some
time ago l suggested that the number
could be limited to a very few patterns
I had no intention OF making unwilling
converts or OF depriving needy tackle
dealers of a living.
The suggestion was the result OF my
own experience on the streams near New
York and the experiences Of friends
who have been close students Of condi-
tons for many years.
100 varities of water Insects.
can find no fault with ALLEN" n
our opinions and methods differ. but IN
ca sc any read ers OF Rod and Gun should
feel disposed to make experiments on
their own account IL is Only fair to
state that Aliens" conclusions regard
! ing brown trout are wrong.
l have never fshed the Brodhead. al
though l once spent eight weeks fishing
the Analomirk. which flows into the
| Brodhead at Henryville. I am told.
however. by men who fish the former
stream every year that conditions there
| are substantially the same as on other
! brown trout streams.
| with the Esopus and its tributaries I
am quite familiar while the Beaverkill.
the Mongaup. the Willowemoc and the
/ Neversnk are all old friends with the
exception of one or two trips to the back
: country ali my fishing has been for
brown trout. The abbreviated list OF
flies are the ones used on the waters
! mentioned
Allen" says that he doubts II any
/ man familiar with brown trout would
affirm that good sport could be had with
only six flies. In view of my own eN-
per!ence and that OF my friends, l can
make such an assertion with the GER
tsinty that any angler Of ordinary skill
can make the necessary tests for him
self
Fishiess days have been common since
the beginning and will probably continue
to be so "a far as the sportsman is con-
cerned. This is a condition that no va
r.ety Of lures can change.
Our Eastern streams provide over one
hundred varieties OF water Insects, to
say rothing Of the land insects or which
. Az phn Tod
ward OF hundred kinds OF flies with
him would certainly be working under no
small handicap.
Very often the angler will witness
| fight Of insects In the early evening
| on which the trout are feeding. His Ct
forts TO initiate the natural flies are
! only too often unsuccessful, and the
precious moments Of daylight are spent
! in changing flies.
| 1t would seem as II the man with
! limited assortment stood almost good
| a chance under such conditions. In the
! case Allen" mentions the Red Quill he'd
/ been a taking fly all day. 1t may OF
/ may not have been good imitation OF
! the insects on which the trout were feed
| ms.
As II had taken Ash in other parts Of
| me ST. ea"l II 'r' 'H'''E ""' Wv"
trial The question Tor the nsnerman
10 settle is "he'ner any ny OF H"hla'
! construction Wou'u ha'e oee" no 'u9
! cessful
! Good catches have been reported from
| the Beaverkiil since the season opened.
! yet on May 3oth fishing was at a stand
! still. No Insects were Matching and the
nsn were s'ussIsn' ~" anu a.
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