TROUT FLY-FISHING IN AMERICA 



tain things about fly-fishing. I have in mind what George 

 A. B. Dewar, author of "The Book of the Dry-Fly" states 

 about the two different methods of fly-fishing. 



"The dry-fly is as clearly out of place on the wet-fly water as 

 the wet-fly is on the dry-fly stream." 



"After all, it is only in the style of deceiving and hooking fish 

 that dry-fly and wet-fly anglers . . . assuming both to be 

 good sportsmen . . . can much differ. In nearly all other 

 fly-fishing matters they must naturally be at one." 



"It has already been said that the dry-fly is quite out of place 

 in many trout streams." 



"The dry-fly streams, though they have increased of late years, 

 are still and ever must be in a decided minority." 



"The dry-fly angler is not, as a rule, a very early riser. He can 

 do nothing without natural fly, and in my experience there are very 

 few duns or other water-flies out till nine or even ten o'clock in the 

 morning." 



What Mr. Dewar says, in the main, applies equally 

 well to the conditions found in this country so far as dry- 

 fly fishable waters are concerned. 



As to the time of fishing that is governed to a great 

 extent by the fact that in England the angler "fishes the 

 riser while in America the angler "fishes the stream!* 



These are true statements made by Mr. Dewar, and 

 just as soon as the dry-fly anglers and writers of this coun- 

 try realize such is -the case and quit their manifestly un- 

 fair attitude toward the wet-fly angler their standing in 

 the angling world will be decidedly improved from what 

 it is at the present time. 



Because the fly-fishing conditions, as well as the trout, 

 of England are so different from those found in this coun- 



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