Show ARTIN FLY Andrew in London Morning I Post rhOn first at about the age of iI I saw Herbert was crouching among the alders beside a water In which he calls Tile Aline In his autobiography Mr Spencer bad a atrue true Britons frank of language not his own whether ancient or mod modera era in fact this philosopher was typically the British schoolboy in many ways The river if it imad a name is the or Black Water which is hardly a name at all Mine iii Gaelic beautiful Is time well de title of the sea loch Into which the stream falls an ancient castle In the alders to return from philology was Mr Spencer with witha a light one at that time abd in that place a heretical rod for as there weme salmon in the rods were at a My younger brother and I were driving past the way to fish In the vater loch whence the river Issues and in of ofa a casual wild duck we ima guns Shall we shoot time philosopher sitting one of us asked forwe only knew of time angler that he Was called the philos philosopher opher held heterodox about uly hooks caught trout enough to tomake make us envious Timis Incident came back to my mont montory ory nhon Mr on flies in his autobiography H alWays loved to dash at any received opinIon except the current opinion that thatto to study time classics Is a Waste of time and when he caine to a riVer or where there were files lie attacked the belief in them just as lie attacked any other belief He men lions that armed with other files own lie fished a match against a farmer who used files and that the match ended In a tip But tather he does not m time of the gut employed by himself and op opponent probably thin used very fine gunt Long ago he held or was credited by us boys with the opinIon Ion that flies tied in the re reverse verse of the way the wings down toward the line the band of the hook He thought that sunk flies loWn stream looked more natural In the water and behaved more lively As faras I know he had no experience In dry fishing on chalk streams where you necessarily learn more about than In any other way for you ee what the trout Is dong you cast over him with bet follows Mr Spencer was very strongly of opinion that do not discriminate colors and shades of The Theran ran sees a small fluttering object in lifelike motion And if hell take hell take You may depend ont if imo ho wont and Theres an end ont I Time fly may be an non aqullia but the Eagle takes 01 a Jock Scott or a or ft Durham hanger or a Bulldog It is all one to the fish if its mecca takIng are pretty commonly held but Mr Spen ocr grieved over time superstition of Gd men still believed that any anyone one fly is better than another This process of conversion to this faith he sAlt was had a good tiny with a particular fly and went about it rho or keepers sang its praises it acquired local renown amid as everybody used It of course it caught fish and Prospered In timo struggle for existence Titus the Popham had all the on time Mine as Ml Spencer the water though If equally used the Filver Gray would have done just as aswell well It is tile size appropriate to the Oti time water high or low lInt the color does time business fact has so that buy many flies just as a collector buys many miniatures Thai are pret pretty ty to look at though a salmon cures no nomore more for their beauty than he does for that cit a Cosway or a To change files when fish wont take fills imp time and suggests a of hope renewed But a wilt talk this to t Oil a stream arty more titan he argue against the ninas faith In the 0 or Ig in the loon favorite thea is part of time guIles poetry I Leave thou thy guile when Its plays IlLs local flies his early views Nor thou with shadowed hint confuse lIja notIon of 1110 hook pays If one fly as as another and thi Is the drew philosophical USa such flies as are Set you Time concoction has succeeded often be and succeed again whereas if you insist on t novel experiment your attendant turns rusty and thinks you not a wieman but a ed prig No man can be made more wise and destiny not nota a shade of color or tinsel is to malte lucky in To be if you with the local tiles you are only strengthening tile local tione much more wicked such mt time second sight aforesaid A gulie tod u of mine that he bad seep th Angi o Dath swoop dOwn a and his hat t t that boy died Tb statement tv ts but mey c It with a I not It becomIng in a to tt long longS k S as they do not lead to the u of the minnow l to tr zut flies tIe question mu than Sn thc of sea trout flies which are salmon flies In minIature No real insect of these fries Is like the brilliant but crude colors of thie and only a most half can ilme though may possibly bly he for drowning spiders Set trout when will take almost backet of feathers though m are abroad they really show a preference for the black I and wasp or so experience makes me apt to think Iii Populous vaterS trout take almost anything that bristles with the resemblance to an Even In a chalk stream where a breeze ruffles a along long cleat pool It does not matter whether you dredge the water with a sunk adler pm a March Brown or a and Woodcock or a Fancy nothing that hUtS evolved Trout if hungry will take time lure lureon on trust natural fly Is Ott the water or even If there be none is exactly parallel to that of salmon or ott a windy loch or Except insist on a gut the trout are not feore dis thing Mr author of The Practical long that a chosen half dozen of tiles enough fr like time Tweed aI the mason it been i demonstrated by Sir Max veil that trout In tue madness of the Mayfly time will take bright red or bright blue artificial If prop any presented to their consideratIon Thui time aS tO selection by trout of artificial tiles which re I those of the water In even In dry When a tiny fly as the Curse a minute goat is on the water they do not reject an ordinary Dun how however ever artfully and the tiny gnat on they are Loathing an hardly bc mutated bY human art But if the trout fre rising say at Olive I Iapi api Inclined to that they will I as a rule take any artificial floating fly 01 the same dImensions if it comes over them This does not seem to general opinion no doubt It ItIs Is wise to the fish he scents th prefer at the moment if you happen to possess the fly If not there is no to for as they say hi Haute It is not the fly hut the driver that does the trick and any fly float lag naturally well directed Is bo boter ter titan the right fly if clumsily cast castOne One has known a large trout to at mid midday day a dozen appropriate flies and finally take a large Sedge which could Hot be on the water at that hour These facts point on to the truth at Spencers Ion amid even in dry fishing on a chalk stream It begins to look as it color were immaterial provided that size and shapO are correctly represented bY the artificial insect However mankind will continue to Imitate the natural flies with minute accuracy if only In Inthe the case ef lart pour I |