Coups and Degrees 361 five pounds, coup. To tie six different flies, of regular pattemsi on number eight-twelve hooks, and take trout with each of them, by daylight casting in clear water, grand coup. Lads and Girls: Make a bait rod of three points, straight and sovind, fourteen ounces or less in weight, ten feet or less in length, to stand a strain of one and one half pounds, at the tip, thirteen pounds at the grip, coup. Make a jointed fly-rod eight-ten feet long, four-six ounces in weight, capable of casting a fly sixty feet, grand coup. Fly-fishing. Boys and lads and young girls and girls: Take with the fly, unassisted, a three-pound trout or black bstss', on a rod not more than five ounces in weight, coup. Take a five-pound trout or black bass or a four-pound landlocked salmon under the same conditions, grand coup. Men and women: Hook and land with the fly, unassisted, with- out net or gaff, a trout or landlocked salmon over four poimds, or a salmon over twelve pounds, coup. To take, under the same conditions, a salmon over twenty-five pounds, grand coup. General Fishing. Boys, lads, men, young girls, girls, and women. Take on a rod, without assistance in hooking, playing, or landing, a trout, black bass, pike, muscallonge, grayling, sal- mon, bluefish, weakfish, striped bass, kingfish, sheepshead, or other game fi^, whose weight in pounds equals or exceeds that of the rod in ounces. Take under the same conditions a game fish that is double in pounds the ounces of the rod, grand coup. Indoor Fly-casting. Boys and young girls: To cast a fly with a rod of five ounces or less, not over ten feet long, forty feet, coup; fifty-five feet, grand coup. Lads and girls: Sixty-five feet, coup; eighty feet, grand coup. Men and women: Eighty feet, coup; ninety-five feet, grand coup. "Every fish caught and kept, but not used, is a rotten spot in the angler's record" (H. v. D.).
Bait Casting
With one-fourth ounce dummy frog, five-foot rod, indoors, overhead casting, tournament style: Child class 40 feet for coup; 50 feet for grand coup. Boys and young girls" 60 " " " 70 " " " "
