The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-08-24
NEW YORK TROUT
TIME ENDS AUG. 81
Dry Fly Best for Last Week Of
Season-Need for Careful
Angling.
UPSTREAM FISHING BEST
Big Fellows Now Make Home
in Deeper Water Near Boul-
ders Awaiting Food.
UPSTREAM FISHING BEST
~ DIXIE CARROLL.


! son the waters are, nine times out Of
ten, high and reilly, filling the strear
from bank to bank and rushing alons
gathering driftwpod, mud and sand
until 1t takes mighty clear eyed trout
to do more than hope TO see anything
In the food line.
What he does see is the worm and
and mfnnow, He is not even looking
for fly for the very good reason that
he 10 bottom feeding there being no
flies in hatch on the waters that early.
anyway.
Following the rules of nature, which
are generally simple laws, the trout
feeds on the food supply that the Great
Ruler of the streams and rushing waters
supplies.
The worm is washed along from the
banks where the swift water has loos-
ened the earth and Is carried down.
stream until hungry fish with a big
appetite and a small supply of food
awaits the juicy dainty as 1t rolls and
wriggles close to the bottom.
Most fishermen coming home from the
early season trip to the trouting waters,
that is the wise fisherman who does
not resort TO bunk" will admit that
ne got his fish with either the worm or
minnow. This is especially so IL he hap
pens to bring home fairly big one. He
will not tell the story that they were
simply crazy after his flies.
August Conditions.
Until the insects begin to hatch along
the stream side, the trout are not over
anxious to come to the surface, but
along Though June and July the ny fish
erman is right in his glory.
As the waters fell down through Au-
gust the fly game also quiets down.
Streams that were full and rushing are
generally mere skeletons of their former
selves and the water is clear and fine,
which makes 1t easy stun for the trout
to see what is going on along his feed
ing waters
Not so often now do you find him
along the open stretches. He has hiked
away to the pools, along the cut in hanks
where the stream has washed away a
| safe refuge among the roots that curl
down under the water. by the driftw BOD
and logs that have become wedged In
| the water. and In fact any place that
looks like a quiet safe place to hang
atout. For these hiding places I have
found Merino grasshopper a mighty
inviting fly for the big trout.
Dry Fly a Winner Now.
And. here also is where the dry fly
comes into its own. and II you play II
right you will get a piece of fishing that
will mike any other line of stream
work look like a two spot without any
helpers. To the ordinary fly fisherman
| who has never tried the dry fly this end
of the game looks like something a
little beyond him.
OF course during the June and July
| fly casting. the beginner could get his
, fish even If his casting was bit clumsy
and noisy. But for the dry fly stunt
| with the clear fine waters, and the
August stiffness of the woods which is
| so naked. and when sounds seem to
carry further and quicker the casting
must be done with more fineness and
without the usual splash and shuttle in
the waters.
In fishing the dry fly, no effort
| should be made to cover a big stretch OF
water. but the real effort should be to
approach the pools or hiding places of
the trout carefully and quietly.
1t is essentially necessary that such
casting water should be studied before
! the cast Is made so that the greatest
chance may be had before giving the
trout especially the big ones. the scare
before you get in your good work.
A big trout may be lying even
forty feet away. just waiting for a
nice fat little insect to come floating
I
into his line OF vision, when a splash
through careless footing gives him
the high sign that it's time to beat it
to safer place until the danger blows
over.
Fish Dry Fly In stream.
The right u,av 70 fish thu drv fIv Ia
NJ, stream worIirg into tba water ha-
,nu, ,ha noo,s houIdsrs or raSusa 60 ,hat
you can make your cast mn and slightly
across the stream This gives vour fiy a
chance 10 foat naturaily down stresm
uI,h tho curror+ which is NJ course tha
obtact ~ the dr., fly
In cssting for The big fellow that ,,o,,
feel s,re lies mar The honIder maIs
the cast a ljt,Ia above u 90 that tba
Hv will foat down ana around n In
,ho sw,t, little swirl of wster that ven'
Ill, curls around such ola front hidinv
wacss WE 'S'
Although tho front ,s living thara wait
tho for DIS, such an iny,,atior 20 ,sed
,he Az 6osting down takes him NV sur.
shnrt or, iolt ~ hesyvweIght II
you fail TO get your strike on the first
cast do not make second try at the
same spot right away, but cast, say over
into the pool along the other shore, then
afterward make another cast up around
| the boulder.