TROUT FLY-FISHING IN AMERICA 



Taken from "The Dry-Fly in America" (La 

 Blanche) : 



"Even in wet-fly fishing it is at all times necessary to cast deli- 

 cately and accurately. . . . 



"The man who believes this (that the casting of a fly is sub- 

 ordinate to the fishing of the fly) will never become an accom- 

 plished fly fisherman ; nor will he, if he does not realize that the 

 greatest essential to success lies in placing the fly lightly and ac- 

 curately." 



Taken from **The New York Tiniest June g, 1913: 



"The wet-fly, as anyone conversant at all with angling knows, 

 sinks as soon as it strikes the water." 



So it seems that dry-fly enthusiasts are somewhat at 

 odds about what is the proper thing for the wet-fly man 

 to do. 



While it is easy to contend that a man is wrong if one 

 happens to disagree with him, it is rarely a convincing 

 form of argument. Disputed questions whether in law 

 or sport should be argued fairly and impartially, and it 

 is disappointing to find, as I have pointed out, that the 

 spokesman of the minority has preferred to make state- 

 ments which even a casual examination prove to be biased 

 and incorrect. 



Some of the dry-fly anglers, if we are to judge from 

 what many of them put into print, belong to the minority 

 class who spell success in fly-fishing with the word AN- 

 TICIPATION, and seem to take issue with the wet-fly 

 angler because he sees fit to spell success with the word 

 REALIZATION, 



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