TROUT FLY-FISHING IN AMERICA 



fortune to fish. In this way one will be enabled to en- 

 joy the pursuit of angling to the fullest extent whenever 

 one can get away from the hot, noisy city and tiresome 

 daily work, whether it be for a day, a week or a month. 



In order that there may be no misunderstanding about 

 anything I say, let it be understood that I am a firm be- 

 liever in both the wet and dry-fly method of trout fishing. 

 But while I believe above all in fair play and tolerance 

 of other anglers' views, I also believe in severe criticism 

 of writers, on any branch of angling, who, for any rea- 

 son, make unfair, unjust, untrue, and contemptible state- 

 ments and insinuations about brother writers and what 

 they have to say. 



When considering the art of fly-fishing it is important 

 to realize that there is as much difference between the art 

 of fly-casting and fly-fishing as there is between daylight 

 and darkness. A person may be an expert fly-caster and 

 at the same time be absolutely ignorant of the art of either 

 wet or dry-fly fishing. This is said with no idea of dis- 

 paragement of the art of casting or tournament casters. 



The two arts are very dissimilar, and it is not strange 

 that such is the case when one considers that in fly-cast- 

 ing there is but one essential requirement, while in dry-fly 

 fishing there are four and in wet-fly fishing there are five. 



Requirements in Fly-Casting: 



This art requires solely the casting of a line, leader 

 and fly, or their equivalent, with a fly rod and nothing 

 more. 



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