TROUT FLY-FISHING IN AMERICA 



mechanism (the rod, line, leader and fly) in such a man- 

 ner as to produce certain desired results, remembering that 

 "like causes produce like effects.'* 



There are many kinds of anglers, but all anglers are 

 by no means good fly fishermen, even though they may 

 have had years of experience. 



It is on this account that many writers on the subject 

 of fly-fishing have taken great delight in dividing the fly- 

 fishing fraternity into a number of classes, such as the 

 practical angler, the scientific angler, the theoretical 

 angler, the good angler and the poor angler. 



This division into classes is indeed very interesting, 

 inasmuch as it discloses the different points of view of the 

 different writers ; but does much of all that is voiced about 

 the classes lead to any logical conclusion that is at all 

 convincing? 



Fly fishermen can be divided and subdivided into as 

 many classes as there are fishermen, but what possible 

 benefit will thus accrue to the beginner, who is looking 

 for something tangible to aid him in the "Art of Fly-Fish- 

 ing"? 



There are, as a matter of fact, just two real classes of 

 fly fishermen, the good and the bad, which, in other words, 

 means the successful and the unsuccessful fishermen. 



The successful angler is at one and the same time the 

 practical, the scientific and good fly fisherman, while the 

 unsuccessful angler is the theoretical, the thoughtless and 

 the bad fly fisherman; the one has "fish sense," and the 

 other has none at all. 



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