Then, the snapping of your footlink, or-
-just as likely--of the top of your rod, makes you fully aware, if
not of the pluck, at least of the brute strength, of the burly
alderman of the waters. No fish, therefore, will better teach the
beginner the good old lesson, 'not to frighten a fish before you have
tired him.'
For flies--chub will rise greedily at any large palmers, the larger
and rougher the better. A red and a grizzled hackle will always take
them; but the best fly of all is an imitation of the black beetle--
the 'undertaker' of the London shops. He, too, can hardly be too
large, and should be made of a fat body of black wool, with the
metallic black feather of a cock's tail wrapped loosely over it. A
still better wing is one of the neck feathers of any metallic-plumed
bird, e.g., Phlogophorus Impeyanus, the Menaul Pheasant, laid flat
and whole on the back, to imitate the wing-shells of the beetle, the
legs being represented by any loose black feathers--(not hackles,
which are too fine.) Tied thus, it will kill not only every chub in
a pool (if you give the survivors a quarter of an hour wherein to
recover from their horror at their last friend's fate), but also,
here and there, very large trout.
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