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, Bonita "t~ ofthi~play, and for days and days,twhen askedwhy she hasn't doneany home work, she has looked , I,hurt and cried out, "But I'm i ' Showing a segment of thethe class play!" And it worked. senior boys' glee club giving

Folk the 'the class song, which goes,gym. Jane is doing so "Good-bYto dear old D. H.prettily. Hasn't kicked S., and to our schoolmates~herself in the shin or true, we ever will be loyalmaimed anyone else to the scarlet and the blue."yet. Her proud mother ~ __ .=has just whispered toher neighbor that" Ja-nie has the cutest littler: legs in the whole, crowd!"

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The class president is reading the classwill and she has come to that screaminglycomic part where she says, "Yours trulywills her tin curlers to Jim Pratt." Jim,whose wave is natural, is not amused.

Jane 19, 1938

(;LASS DAYBy W. E. Hill

Co'JrJShL.lll8,'" ChJeacoTrlbune.N. Y. N••.• S)'ItdiC'ale,lM.

Loretta is wonder-ing what she willwrite on her classpictures . . . theones she's ex-changing withfriends. To Doug-las, she will in-scribe: "Posed justfor you." And toher' chum, MaryEleanor: "ToShrimp,in memoryofyouknowwhat."

Fish Hool{s in Full Dress(Contillued from page olle.)

have been the first descriptionof fiy fishing.WhQthor this: " bait fallacious"

was red, green, black, or whiteno one can tell. Nor is it knownwho was first to take a featherof a bird or hair from an animalto make a substitute for thewings of an insect and attach itto a hook. But fiy fishing musthave had a simple beginning likethis, and down through the agesthe art of making lures has eon-stantly developed until today itoffers' to the angler thousandsof beautiful patterns.A lIst of the birds and anfmals

whose feathers and hair are uti-lized in modern fiy rod luresreads like a natural history.Dyed hair from the pelts of arc-tic polar bears, tails of gray andfox squirrels, the fiuffy plumageof the African marabou stork,hair from white-tailed deer thatlive in northern forests - yes,even dyed hair from the tail ofa calf-now are skilfully han-dIed by the fiymaker.Many of the old standard pat-

terns which are favorites ofAmerican fiy fishermen cameto us from Europe. This is espe-cially true of well known fiiessuch as the Jock Scott and theSilver Doctor. But the develop-ment of fiy fishing for blackbass, an American sport in everysense of the word, provided abig stimulus to the productionof fancy flies, which Americanmanufacturers now make ingreat variety.One of the most beautiful and

most famous flies, that well Il-lustrates how the manufacturermust go to many corners of theworld for his materials, is thepattern known as the Jock Scott.The Scott was invented by an-mploye of an Englishman whoas a keen salmon fisherman.t is in the fiy book of Virtuallyvery salmon fisherman, wheth-r he flshes American, English,r Scotch streams.In this one fly there are twen-y-two different materials fromleven different countries. Forxample, the hook of the Jockcott fiy pictured on page one ofhis section was made in Nor-ay, Some of the feathershackles from game cocks) weremported from China. The man-facturer turned to England forhe bluejay feathers which gonto the wing of the pattern.lumage from a mallard duck,word peacock feathers fromhlna, Indian crow from East

The Story Behind ThoseColorful Fly Rod Lures

India, an American teal feather,American turkey feather, a tou-can feather from South Africa,macaw plumage fro m SouthAmerica, and part of a wildgoose feather from America alsoare used in this one fiy.The yellow and black silk

fioss which goes into the bodyof the fly was imported fromJapan. The attractive .tlnseland silver cord is a product ofFrance. Black ostrich plumagefrom Africa also is included inthe body of the fiy. The tailcarries a genuine ibis featherfrom Egypt arid a golden pheas-

patterns sue h as the RoyalCoachman, Jock Scott, and RioGrande King. In most of thesalmon fiies you flnd crest andtippet feathers from the goldenpheasant. (One of the bass bugspictured on the page of lures hasa golden pheasant feather ineach wing.)Mallard duck feathers are al-

most indispensable to the flyflsherman. The side feathersprovide wings for bass flies.The breast f eat her s makeWings for trout tlies. (Pro-fessor and Grizzly King are twowell known flies using mallard

A big fellow jumps clear after taking a fiy. (Acme photo.)

ant crest feather from China.Japanese silk thread is neededfor tying the fly.The feathers of the ostrich are

used tn the manufacture of'nymphs (small imitations ofstream insects in the creeperstage) and dry fiies. From theAfrican marabou stork comesplumage for wet fiies of thestreamer type. Wing and tailfeathers of the American tur-key are used very extensivelyIn flies. Many a standard fiypattern, such as the Seth Green,M 0 n t rea I, Lord Baltimore,Stone Fly, Ferguson, SilverDoctor, Alder, Hare's Ear, andWestern Bee, owes its efficiencyto the feathers of the turkey.The Ferguson (shown on thecolor page) has wings madewith turkey feathers, a body ofsilk tloss, a goose quill tail, anda hackle front.The plumage of the golden

pheasant quite properly goesinto some of the old standard tly

duck feathers.) The purplefeathers from the mallard gointo the McGinty, Western Bee,Quill, and Cahill flies.Feathers from the barnyard

goose and the swan often aredyed red, yellow, and other col-ors before being used in variouspatterns. The vivid red wingsof a red ibis bass fly or thebright yellow wings of a YellowSally bass tly may be made fromdyed goose or swan feathers.Sometimes feathers of an un-

common bird such as the flamin-go travel far north to a Cana-dian trout stream. Amateurflymakers may originate newpatterns from fiamingo plum-age, parrot feathers, or evenmacaws. The West Bay Coasterfly shown on the color page is ahomemade lure that utilizes tla·mingo feathers and streamersof rooster hackles. This partie-ular fly caught a 6lh-pound troutin Lake Nipigon last year.If polar bear hair were cheap-

er many more tlies would bemade with this unusual mate-rial. One American flymakerconsiders polar bear hair excel-lent for the long streamer typeof flies, as the hair has a highsheen on it, thus adding to theeffectiveness of the lure. Skunkhair is an unusual material nowbeing used in some flies. Buck-tails (from white- tailed deer)are dyed many colors and thenused in hundreds of bass lures.Many of the bass lures which

are shown on the color page Il-lustrate the use of deer hair intypes of flies that are popularwith b lac k bass fishermen.Among the floating surface luresmade of deer hair are thosenamed for former Governor Pin-chot and Zane Grey. The gay-colored surface minnows in thecenter of the color page havebodies of deer hair and tailsmade from hackle feathers.

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One of the most popular typesof wet bass fly which bass tlsh·ermen like also is made fromdeer hair. (The type is illus-trated by the dark green hairfly on the color page.) Fly rodfishermen flnd that this generaltype of lure is easy to cast andis very much alive in the water.Another good example of howdeer hair can be tied to producean effective bass lure is the redand white "bug" illustrated onthe color page.The way some of the old fly

patterns originated makes fas-cinating reading. In some in-stances patterns were developedeither accidentally or quite cas-ually by some fiymaker. Thevery popular Royal Coachman,a favorite of thousands of troutand bass fishermen, well illus-trates this point. The RoyalCoachman was first made in1878by John Haily, a profession-al fiy dresser living in New YorkCity. But Mr. Haily didn't knowhe was making a Royal Coach-man at the time.He received an order for some

Coachman flies from a tisher-man about to go on a northwoods trip. To make them extrastrong he used a band of silk inthe middle to prevent the bodyof the tly (constructed of pea-cock feathers) from fraying. Mr.Haily also added a tail of thebarred feathers of the woodduck. When the job was donethe maker decided he had "avery handsome fiy." A fewevenings later a group of flsher-

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~1 ~.I,The class dance in the gym. In the foregroUnd,the girls on the sidelines are comparing notesover the ice cream. They are wondering whyBud brought Florence instead of Violet. Andthe girl with the almost perfect back is whisper-ing, "Don't look now, but I want you to castyour eyes on what Webster dragged in! Where

did he hook that sardine?" :atIf'!.'"

-~Audrey's mamma is thrilled over -f::! 1\ \ ' ,Audrey's.~ work in the exhibition, -/:' ',,' \1 /f Jand is pomtmg out to some one that \ I I ';i ;\Audrey put a high light on every These girls have been asked to greet the class daycherry in her drawing. Most girls guests and show them around. They have lost theirwould have got tired putting in high nerve, for the time being, and are huddled togetherlights and stopped. But not her in a comer. Soon some one will hiss, "Here comes

Audrey. the principal!" and they will be scared into action.

Bob Becker and a guide with their catch. Notice the wading equipmellt they wear.

men were discussing the flyquestion, when one of the partycommented on the Coachmanflies that Mr. Haily had decorat-ed with silk and additional teath-ers, Since the standard Coach-man had been altered, it wasn'ta true Coachman. The problemwas, what could it be called?One of the fishermen pointed tothe way the fly was so "flnelydressed" and said it might becalled the Royal Coachman.Within a comparatively shorttime this name was generallyused for this particular fly.Today it is standard.The growing popularity of the

beautiful streamer tlies is one ofthe notable developments in fiyrod angling. Many a fishermanhas laid aside some of the oldstandard patterns for the newerunderwater streamer 1u res,which seem to be alive in thewater. The feathers formingthe flowing streamer tails areso light that they wave and swaywhen brought through the water.Other streamer lures are madewith hair, which a 1s 0 givesmuch action to the lure. Bass,large trout, wall-eyes, muskel-lunge, salmon, and even seatrout are taken with these lures.It is in some of these stream-

ers that we see the fiymakerdoing his tlnest work in dressingup flies. Peacock feathers, theexpensive and beautiful plum-age of the jungle cock, bluejay:feathers, ,guinea hen feathers,and many other materials arefound in these patterns.The costs of modern fiy flsh·

ing equipment are moderate.

Some fishermen start with flyrods costing no more than $5each, although the average be-ginner finds it advisable to in-vest at least $10 or $15 for abamboo rod, as such a fishingweapon will give good servicefor many years and has balance,flexibility, and power, whichmeans better and easier casting.If the beginner wants a completeoutfit he can get a serviceablebamboo rod, reel, line, severalleaders, an assortment of tlies,carrying case, and just abouteverything needed for less than$20, which is much less than theprice of a very good fly rod.

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The fiy rod made of hollowtubular steel is one of the newestand most successful accessoriesin fly fishing. Much more duroable than bamboo, the 8 and 8lA1foot trout, dry tly, and bass flyrods made of tubular steel rangein price from $12 to $31.A reel for fly fishing costs, so

little that the bait caster oftenis surprised when he takes upfiy fishing. Whereas in baitcasting the reel does most of thework and therefore is a ratherintricate piece of machinery, infiy flshing it's just a simple ac-cessory for holding the line.Therefore ~ reel that will lastmany years costs only $4 or $5,or less. Automatic reels, thoseclever gadgets that take in lineat the pressure of a finger, areon the same price level.Most veteran tly fishermen

can remember when they felt itnecessary to spend around $12

for an imported English·madeline. Today the fly flshermangets years of use out of an Amer-ican-made level line that costsno more than $3 to $5. Eventapered lines made in Americado not require an investment ofmore than $8 or $9. A bait casterpays only a dollar or so for fiftyyards of silk casting line, buthas to purchase several spoolseach summer if he does muchcasting, because they wear out.Lures and other accessories in

fly flshing are about on a parwith bait casting. The trout andbass fly rod fisherman needsleaders made of Spanish gut,which may cost anywhere from15 to 35 cents each when madein America. Imported leadersthat have no better materials inthem, but have the knots in themtied abroad, cost up to 75 centseach. Trout and bass flles andother lures which the tly rodangler uses are medium priced.For example, the best Americanwet bass flies may be purchasedat 25 cents each. Gay-coloredstreamer flies are slightly high-er, especially those containingimported hackles or other ex-pensive feathers. They cos taround 35 cents each. Bass bugsand other popular tloating typesof lures range in price from 40cents to 75 cents each. Troutflies, either wet or dry, may beadded at a cost of anywherefrom 15 to 25 cents each.The most expensive accessory

in the tly rod trout flsherman'soutfit is a $25 combination ofhigh rubber waders and nonslipwading shoes.