The sun., 1918-08-11
THE TRUE DRY FLY
SEASON AT HAND
Late Summer Conditions on
Trout Streams Discussed
by Expert.
DWINDLING WATERS NOW
NJ ROBERT PAGE LINCOLN.

fsh for trout. that being during the
opening days. the forefront OF the sea
sor.
Tho fly fisherman scorns the live bait
and waits until the insects are hover
Ing over the streams, 'counterparts or
near counterparts Of which he can imi-
tate with his feather productions and
80 acquire a nice mess and enjoy some
experience In the doing OF this that
win forever go down In the LIST OF his
recollections.
June and July sees the iy fisherman
In his element August sees a dropping
of in the ranks but some few wise
waltonians still ply the fly when the
heats are curling the leaves and the
tree toad pipes shrilly on the appnr-
emily lifeless air.
Opening day OF the trout streams saw
water in profusIon, running bank high,
IL may have been very rolled. Later
on the streams cleared out. In August
the streams begin to dwindle and sorue
ere mere rivulets in comparison with
their former prestige. e. I'D.
As the streams sink and the fish are
more exposed to their enemies they feed
not so recklessly and are II anything
more cautious. They more and more
forsake the open stretches and more
and more hold themselves to the pools
under the sedSy banks. beside boulders.
dr!ftwood and deadheads They are
liable to he superlative'y watchful.
The tyro casts clumsily--Rnd fails to
get his fish. The more thorough fisher
man or angler casts a neat dry fly.
floats II over the fish and often con-
trives the best capture he ever made.
Both FISHING at large. and fishing
the rise with the dry fly proved in Its
element during the latter part OF the
fr,a drx'
Ia now at hand.
August Days Of stiffness.
time to cover miles upon miles of
stream. casting hurriediy and hap
hazard II is a matter of casting over
short stretches of stream and pains
tadngly studying every foot OF the
water
As the days of Stiffness come on
(and the days OF stiffness begin in the
month of August) sounds carry alarm
ingly. Big trout may be lying twenty.
thirty or forty feet from you.
clumsy splash in the water, will in
stantly put him on the qui vive,
The August angler on the streams
pushes along In the stream easily. with
out making an unnecessary sound. much
over ripple The careful angler wades
up the still water stretches. where
boulders break the rush Of the water
and so avoids making any sound.
The pools have now turned CLASSY.
with here and there a white curl TO
them. as beside boulders n whirling
little eddy at the foot OF rapid. AS
the streams dwindle. as the water clears.
the trout see better. The better they
see the more alert they are 1t Is the
day of caution.
Hiding Places Accumulated.
As the streams sink the hiding places
Of the trout are more and more accen-
tuated There are the pools. obstruc-
TONS &C., and these places are all stud
ted, systematically, intelligently. and
the cast Is made only after thorough
survey is made of the place aimed to be
fshed. There is no need to hurry. Take
your time.
Say you have spotted suspicious
looking patch of calm water near to
boulder Something tells you there is
trout there Nearer to shore there Is
a place by the bank that has all the
appearance of holding a fine fellow.
y, The first feathery cast is made to the
boulder. casing above II. the fly to
drift, "all Of sudden around the rock.
Two out Of three trout thus caught on
. .ne u.s Ivy ,n 1,ss,',, us ~ ~ a.,
80 ms - o,, . r'''atoS ''e ny
The trout will rise ION the impulse of
the moment" In making an Intelligent
cast therefore there are two phases to
be recognized: ..,
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