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Digger (Invercargill RSA), Issue 34, 5 November 1920, Page 5

and when trout refuse a fly or rise vve are far more inclined to ohanga v- than to change the gut and put 'fjner point. Doubtless this entails : troubh, but my contention is that •uld be well worth our while. I do unk that the need of really fee gut igciently emphasised in coOks on jf.g though in Halford's book, the , could hardly be more emphatic: vthinnest of drawn gut in the longest ;3 comp^tible with the strength re- , t,o handle the fish when hooked is j breciable advantage on every stream, u absolute necessity on those which eavily. fished." Many a dry fly float3 to perfection over a rising without a suspicion of drag is totaliregarded by the fish on account of u t to .which it is attached. The iess of the trout is very remarkable, heir sight extraordinarily keen. Dr. is Ward adduces some striking. evid. li)f this. Writing of his photographs fromia tank below the surface of ater, he says, "When a trout lying bottom rises to a fly on the surhe comes like a flash of lightning, jo rapid are his movements that, with an exposure 1-250 of a second, it lossible to get more than a bluryed When trout are rising short, I ;.3 that they just pluck at the gut : it touohing the fly at all ; though movements are so quick that i have heeni able to verify this theory. ; is the only explanation I can give , many tcches that one feels distinctly clear, water. Even in rapid streams ,y3 when fish after fish is just felt; lowever quickly you strike, you fail )ok one. On such occasions only ery finest drawn gut will Uet'eat My advice to anglers on^pqch oc1 ,is is, change your point and put on hing finer, . for the gut is more imit than the fly. Even if a "fish doeg id in breaking you now and . again, rill catch more than if you could not pe them to take hold of your fly at ■ With really fihe gut it becomes a *t of skill ; but when the trout can le gut you have practically no c--g.nce 1 ; and in clear streams the most -ssful fisherman use the finest gwt. My experience of this wa3 strongly cor,ed by what I saw, of a very fine ir last year. He certainly cast a tiful fly, but I noticed particularly careful he was to grease his line •e he commence d operations, and how >nly used the finest gut point that I be procured, and I am certain tbis the secret of his success, when other le could not ihduce a fish to fasten, atter what fly they put on. By all s imitate as nearly as possible the hat is on th'e water; but when in t change your point, for if the trout 3iie eye on -your^fly, he certainly has »ther watching for your gut. Whatthe natural fly may look like to tne , and whatever impression he may of colour, it . is quite certain that itural fly is accompanied hy the flash it in the sunlight, or the streak that even the finest, leaves in the clear