European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - February 20, 1950, Darmstadt, Hesse U k i a i Erer a heed Ier too As the Roe be Ere As ing the or Lor i3s in and the the int Ohe Ort. Nan of g up monday. February 20, woth stars and stripes Page 11 by John by Neil mar Saint Valentin Tho Art Rcv tend aloft the Little Birds Are singing of thy Saber now Welcome summer with by Sunshine soft. This wintry weather thou Wilt overtake. Geoffrey Chaucer 134-140 though it May be weeks before the first nod of Spring and the we come scent of bruised mint of a Boot Heel the Trout Fisherman must took now to his gear while the hollows Are still sullen with Frost offer ing time for painstaking repair. The Fly Rod wielder knows by now tha if Bie Rig is not balanced he cannot place a Fly Witia accuracy or efficiency a soupy Rod will not handle a dry Fly the Way it should be handled nor will it allow a f3y line to properly shoot through the Gibides discouraged novices most frequently Are victims of addled equipment Good Fly roofs May be purchased in Zurich at moderate Cost. Amer ican and european brands Are featured in Many weights and lengths. To modern Fly Rori is As slender As the Stem of a lady supper and hat the strength of steel. The trend is More toward Shorter i tenths for Stream Fis Tung seven and one half feet in weights tinder four ounces. Longer rods up to nine feet Are still in use and Are still being Man factored. They Are the favourites of the Pond Lake and wide Stream dry Fly Man who needs he Power to whisk a Long floating tapered line from a Slick in dimpled surface. For Brook and Small Stream fishing where one encounters thickets and Brash it is better to use the Shorter Rod. Level enamelled lines Are entirely adequate for riffles Wirts and running pools. The More important i tem is the Leader. Broken water will hide a multitude of errors committed by the careless Caster but when the situation Calls for a delicate cast of a cocky dryly on a quiet run the Nylon or gut Leader should a tapered from butt to tip and treated with a commercial mixture so Stoat at least two Leet of it sinks at the Termina end. The proper graduation of taper is indicated by the Type of water one fishes. In Rushing Boulder strewn stretches a Gossamer Tippet Mig part upon the setting of to Hook. Under those condition a heavier a tapered Leader will serve. The lighter the tackle the greater the sport except when carried to extremes. Suggested weight length one of the Best All around tapered lengths and weights for general Stream conditions after flood conditions subside in Germany is a six foot Nylon Leader tapered to 2x. Using the barrel or blood Finot when the fishing conditions demand it smaller tippets May be swiftly attached. The most exacting can be met with 4x and so tippets most of them with 3x. Wet flies should be worked slightly upstream and across the line worked to impart action to the sunken morsel. Dry flies should be fished upstream the line gathered so there is just alack or the strike. The strike comes at the boil not the tug. Shall bore scrap Book. Did you know that a .22 Long Rifle but let fired from a horizontal barrel drops 12 inches in 100 Yards and 50 inches in 200 Yards for linking at crows you May find that the Besl Range for zeroing your Klein Kalber is at 75 Yards. You was then shoot one Inch High at 50 Yards on the nose at 75, and 3 inches Low Art 100. Longer ranges with the ,22 Are exceedingly hard to score at but if you want to know with the 75-Yard Zero your Pellet will strike 25 inches Low at 200 Yards. Last Chance for ducks. Since the end of the month Marks the close of the wild Duck season unless it is extended scatter gunners Are reminded to take advantage of the open streams and the jump shooting differed by the rafts of mallards that seem reluctant to sail southward. A special invitation is offered by the members of Ohe Sony chosen Rod and gun club who say Tlam the Rainbow Trout season is open Down there and that the Duck shooting is excellent. Sgt Pencola who manages the Limp old hotel in Oberst Dorf says you won t have any trouble getting reservations through if you Oali him Art 892. He is preparing to Host a Galaxy of sports enthusiasts who intend to witness the International ski meet thiere honouring six nations and featuring Over 20 junipers who wih fling themselves from the highest ski jump in the. World 130 meters from feb. 28. To March 5. Of course that ski meet is incidental. Reason everyone is going Down there is for the rainbows and ducks. For More intimate knowledge of 1ihe Fauna and terrain look up Angelo Rubino Ted Hytier or Tony Frade. Their freshest of Small talk Wili Lead to some mighty interesting situations in Field and Stream. 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