Fly fishing in wonderland by [Barnes Orange Perry] 1858- [from old catalog]

Author:[Barnes, Orange Perry], 1858- [from old catalog]
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Tags: Fishing
Publisher: Chicago, O.P. Barnes
Published: 1910-03-25T05:00:00+00:00

the extracts following show that its success is not confined to any locality nor to any single species of trout:

"The Pitcher flies you gave me have aided me in filling my twenty-pound basket three times in the last three weeks. Have had the best sport this season I have ever enjoyed on the

Coeur d'Alene waters, and I can truthfully say I owe it all to the Pitcher fly and its designer." H. R. Denny,

Wallace, Idaho.

At the Head of the Meadow

SO

"One afternoon I had put up my rod and strolled down to the river where one of our party was whipping a pool of the Big Hole, trying to induce a tish to strike. He said: 'There's an old villain in there; he wants to strike but can't make up his mind to do it.' I said : 'I have a fly that will make him strike,' and as I had my book in my pocket I handed him a Xo. 8 Pitcher. He made two casts and hooked a beautiful trout, that weighed nineteen ounces, down. I regard the Pitcher as the best killer in my book."

J. li. !\IoNROE, Dillon, Montana.

'Photo hy N. H. Darton The Tongue River

"I determined to follow the stream up into the mountains, but as I neared the woods at the upper end of the meadow I stopped to cast into a long, straight reach of the river where the breeze from the ocean was rippling the surface of the stream. The grassy bank rose steep behind me and only a little fringe of wild roses partly concealed me from the water. I cast the Pitcher flies you gave me well out on the rough water, allowed them to sink a hand-breadth, and at the first movement of the line I saw that heart-expanding flash of a broad silver side gleaming from the clear depths. The trout fastened on savagely, and as he was coming my way, I assisted his momentum with all the spring of the rod, and he came flying out into the clean, fresh grass of the meadow behind me. It was a half-

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