The sun., 1919-08-10
, ,HACKLES BEST FOR
LATE SUMMER TROUT
When Dry Fly Fails, Wet
Hackles Sometimes Will
Fill Creel.
HOT DAY AND BIG FISH
Rough and Unsightly Lures
often Take Magnificent
Brooks and Browns.
NJ LADD PLUMLEY.

Some years ago in late midsummer
was on the upper east branch Of tn,
Neyerslnk River. One morning / de-
slded 10 tramp four miles or SO dowr
stream and fish over some particularly
nice water. The river was drought Low
and very clear. and under such circum
,tanees II Is sometimes extremely DIFF
bcult to get the fish to rise. As soor
As hit the stream, however. I, saw @
biz brown trout take a natural insect
tumblIng q pretty somersault in doins
strung to my leader a dry hy and
attempted to get the fellow to take hold
tut that morning he was not feeding or
dry food After trying out a consider.
abe variety of dry flies I happened Ia
hitch to my leader a Soldier Palmer
bOdy Of scarlet silk. wound with gold
tinsel and red brown hackle.
on former occasions 1 had known
tout in the late season to fancy a
hight fly, ana on this frizzling day. II
turely seemed that a scarlet and gold
vnlform attracted the spangle sides to
usr destruction.
Toward noon II BECAME hotter than
a Harlem bakery without an electric
hn one OF those breathless midsummer
days Of narrow valley where even the
sreamside grasses droop and wilt. The
very day OF all days when no one would
suppose II was any use In Swinging out
the feathers.
biggest Brownie Taken at Noon.
Yet right at dazzling noon. in a long
stlll pool, where cold brook made in,
took the biggest trout of the season.
splendid brown that was nineteen inches
IN length. At I had the legal limit,
ten pounds, and tramped homeward in
the dusty heat with the finest creel /
made during the summer. Nearly every
one Of that beautiful catch took a
slnken Soldier Palmer.
A friend tells me that he had similar
luck with the same fly on a smoking day
m midsummer. When dainty midges fail
pin my hopes to bright fly, and fire.
cuenpy find a Soldier Palmer will lead
trout to the landing net when other
lures prove futile. ~
Toward sundown of a singeing breath
less afternoon, when not a fish is dis
turblng the surface. a sunken Queen of
the Water will sometimes prove fetch
Ing. And on more than one occasion I
have known g very large Queen almost
as big as a bass fly. to raise fish when
smaller fes were scorned.
But there seems to be no rule as to
this Indesd. why trout take a certain
fly on one afternoon, and reject the
same fly under exactly the same condi-
tons on the next afternoon, is one OF
those mysteries which is altogether un-
solvable.
But there can be little doubt that as
summer lounges toward It's end that
trout will frequently rise to a bright
eolored fly. Yet the natural insects seen
upon the water do not appear any
brighter In hue than those in May or
early June.
Haekles AIiuring I'm Late Summer.
All hackles, even of dull hues. seem to
be more alluring In the latter part OF
the summer than carly IN the season.
There are hot days when trout will re-
fuse Soldier Palmer or any bright fly
but will rise to a Jet black hackle. large
and dressed exceedingly bushy.
At these times. particularly II the
water be very low and crystal clear. a
Big fellow will rush for black hackle
IN much the same manner rs IL he were
rushing for bait. Perhaps large black
hackle resembles some variety. OF big
black beetle which is common at the
streamsde during the latter part Of tho
season and which trout regard as a
great delicacy.
front on Unslghtly Lures.
After sunset and way into the night.
sometimes In the late summer. trout
take hig "glnger' hackle. A fishing
acquaintance dresses these hackles him
self, and as he designs them they re-
MUD you OF the tousled head Of a small
boy who is blessed with straw colored
hair and never uses a hair brush. Rough
es the mighty hackles are, my friend
has taken some magnificent trout with
the unsIghtly lures.
And / remember an experience on
Rocklant county stream when toward
hight the trout went fairly crazy with |
their desire fer big ginger hackle that
BY good fortune happened to string on |
my leader, II may be Chat when wet
these big girger hackies resemble grass |
hobpers; It 10 during the hopper season |
when this uncouth straggle OF yellow
feather proves most alluring.
To sum up the whole matter OF late |
summer trout flies. the angler should |
have the usual assortment of dry flies. |
IVY nheH the Hen Teluse lie ury iuo nc
Slll do we'll to test out IN turn the Sol
der Palmer. big Black Hac<les. Ginger
Haekles and the ordinary Brown HaclSle,
lS well as a sunken Queen of the Water.
After sundown and through the gloam-
Ing he should hitch his hopes to a bushy
ginger
For those who tie their own files. the
dressing Of the Ginger Hackle is given.
Body straw colored split floss silk; tag
ana winding, silver tinsel; a cocks neck
hackle Of dull buff. wound from the tag
upward, with q double hackle at the