The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1918-07-28

! on grubs. Big Ash are taken at night,
but night hshing Is not In the interest
Of conservation.
Dait Fishing Inferior Art.
| Bait fishing, however. is inferior as an
art, less sport to the angler and the FISH
are injured 1T really destroys under
sized fish and fish put back die.
Fly fishing Is the more sportsmanlike
method to take trout. and is an art.
Why a fly? The natural insect is too
delicate to cast. Accuracy and delicacy
| In casting the fly are more important than
distance. as a rule. Practice until one
gains experience can be Mad at home on
! water or on grass
Wet flies are winged. hackles and
palmers. Dry flies are double upright
winged, hackle winged and hackles.
| There are more than hundred different
patterns limitations of insects and many
so-called fancy" flies Sizes are from
6 to Is. Eight, 10 and IL are most COM
p, monty used
In wet fly stream fishing the tackle
| should consist of level or tapered line.
six foot looped leader, snelled flies, one,
| two or three. In the multiple flies the
nearest is called the hand fly or first
dropper, and the other flies are called
second dropper and tail fly, or stretcher.
| Small dark flies are used for bright days
| and clear water The larger and more
| brilliant flies are used when conditions
| are reversed. There is no hard and
| fast rule. Any old fly will do when fish
are feeding well, and the angler who
| can have the exact match where there Is
| a hatch on has killing fly.
Fly Fishing Methods.
The method of fishing follows: Down
stream is the most common way to fish.
The cast 10 made from the bank or on
entering the stream. You strip off fif-
teen or twenty feet OF line and cast
across. allowing flies to swing around
in segment OF circle until the line
points down stream. You strip off a
| yard or two and recover 1t with bacl,
cast and repeat as before until the limit
| Is reached.
Then advance a step or two reel in
| line to fifteen or twenty feet and proceed
as before. until all the good water is
covered. Usually allow the flies to 20
with the current. Sometimes "jiggle" a
| little before recovering Trout often
jump for the fly as it is leaving the
water.
| The advantage OF down stream fishing
| Is that II is much the easier way both
as to fatigue and managing the line.
| The disadvantage to the angler is that
he IL ensly seen by me fish and he is
less likely to hook. Also down stream
| fishing disturbs un1shed waters, stirring
up gravel and mud.
In wet fly fishing up stream the gen.
eral plan Of casting Is tho same. but the
angler casts ahead or diagonally w and
| across. The advantage OF this is tina.
II does not disturb unhshed waters. the
| angler { hahinH ba Of rirfn
and the trout is more likely to hook him
self In his PUSHES up stream. Also you
can use a shorter line.
| Tho drawbacks are II is much more
tiresome to wade and it is difficult to
manage properly the line as 1t comes
down stream
| Wet ny fishing is adopted to rapid
streams, esrecially early in the season,
during inclement weather. when fish
are bottom feeding or when no flies are
In the water. IT is the most common
| form Of fly fishing
! Dry fly fishing or fishing with the
foattng fly Is the highest type OF nv
nsh!nG. The object il to initiate n living
| fly floating on the surface. This form
or fishing was first brought to perfection
/ on the slow. clear chalk streams of Eng.
land II has been adapted to America n
waters and popularized by La Branche,
| Gill. McGucken and others.
| The equipment is rod nine to ten feet
with plenty OF backbone" The line
| should he vacuum dressed and tapered ;
leader tapered coarse to fine, two and a
| nais TO three yards, without drc1per
loops. fly, one only. especially tied for
| f1oating The line must be creased and
fly treated with paraffining preparation ia
| prevent its soon becoming water soaked
| Inc dry fly Is always fshed up stream.
! In England the dry fly originally was
| only cast to rising fish Here il is cast
to all rising fish and also in likely
! places. The line is extended by casts
In the air false casts) before the fly is
allowed to fall on stream. Then the f,v
Is allowed to float down stream beyond
the location Of the fish, meanwhile strip-
| ping in line.
The fly is lifted gently Off the water
and dried and line worked out by re-
peated false casts before the fly. is again
allowed to touch the water. This method
Will often take fish when other means
RAIL- especially In hot weather and low
water.
1t would be of advantage TO the hcr4r.
ner to read practical Dry Fly Fish
Ing" by Emlyn VI. Gill and The Dry
Fly and Fast Water" by George NJ l.,
La Branche.
In New York State the trout season
lasts until August 81 Fish under six
| inches must be returned to the waters
| un!njured.