TROUT FLY-FISHING IN AMERICA 



requires great skill and patience to practice it success- 

 fully. It will not, however, I venture to say, black the 

 stove, shine your shoes, comb your hair, clean your hat, 

 or do a thousand other things that some American dry- 

 fly writers would have every wet-fly angler and beginner 

 believe ; and it is not perforce of many adverse conditions, 

 the alpha and omega of all fly-fishing. 



This method of fly-fishing has come to stay, and it has 

 its place in the angling world just the same as wet-fly fish- 

 ing has its place, but no more. 



After owning a proper fly-fishing equipment, one has, 

 in order to become successful as a wet or dry-fly fisher- 

 man, to study the nature of the different species of trout; 

 one must learn their habits and actions under many varied 

 conditions, such as locality, the time of year, the time 

 of day, the kind of day, the depth of water, the temperature 

 of the water and the weather and water conditions, also 

 the character of the natural food they have to live upon 

 in the many different kinds of trout waters. 



Remember that as conditions change in the different 

 trout waters, so must the method of fly-fishing vary, if the 

 angler is to meet with success, as it is only by careful ob- 

 servation and study of the altering conditions that the 

 beginner can ever arrive at the much-coveted goal . . . 

 that of becoming a really good fly fisherman. 



My suggestion to all fly fishermen is to use both the 

 wet and dry-fly methods of fishing, and not to confine 

 themselves to either method exclusively, but to use the 

 method best adapted to the waters it may be their good 



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