TROUT FLY-FISHING IN AMERICA 



He very aptly says : 



"The truth is there are few points in regard to fly-fishing of 

 which it may justly be said this is right and that is wrong, irre- 

 spective of attendant circumstances." 



There appeared in The New York Sunday Times of 

 June 9, 1912, an article upon Dry-Fly Fishing in which 

 Emlyn M. Gill is reported as saying: 



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

 sinks as soon as it strikes the water." 



At the time I read this article I was inclined to be- 

 lieve that Mr. Gill had been misquoted on the ground 

 that he was considered to be an experienced wet-fly angler 

 long before he took up the dry-fly. I could not imagine 

 how anyone, even an angler of limited experience, so ex- 

 pressing himself about the wet-fly, unless the fly had been 

 deliberately soaked before ever a cast was made. 



Such a proceeding would be decidedly irregular and 

 not at all in keeping with good practice of wet-fly fishing. 



I forgot all about the matter until I read Mr. GilFs 

 article, entitled "Dry-Fly Fishing with A. W. Dimock,'' 

 which appeared in the February, 1913, issue of Field and 

 Stream, 



In this article Mr. Gill states as follows : 



"Mr. Dimock had been for many years a wet-fly fisherman, 

 and as considerable discussion had been going on in the sporting 

 papers and elsewhere as to the comparative merits of the dry-fly 

 and the wet, we thought that we would give both an impartial 

 tryout. 



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