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flies, the love of angling was increasing at the rate of ten 

 to one from when I was a lad. I always found the more 

 a stream was whipped over, the more wary and shy the 

 fish became ; and I always made it a rule never to leave 

 a good rising fish while he was feeding. I have tried 

 every dodge, and often every fly in my book. By changing 

 my end fly (not intending to do so) I have occasionally 

 made a cast with a dry fly. In those days it was said 

 this would scare a rising trout and cause him to leave off 

 feeding. On the other hand, I found while my fly was 

 still on the surface, without a ripple, it has tempted the 

 fish to seize it, after I have been throwing a sunk fly over 

 him, in vain, scores of times. These observations were 

 the cause of my introducing floating flies. I found it 

 advisable to use one fly only with a shorter casting line. 

 I always carried two or three of these casts with me, but 

 still followed the old plan of using three sunk flies. I 

 used to throw up stream in shallow water ; after a fresh, 

 down stream, as I found I could edge my side much 

 better down than up stream, and only used the dry fly as 

 mentioned above ; or, on meeting with a shy fish, 

 I have found it most useful, and many dozens of wary 

 fish have I taken in this way. I commence dressing 

 my flies with upright wings, as follows : Make the body 

 first, next set the wings on upright, and then the hackle 

 close up behind the wings, finishing off close up behind 

 the hackle ; but for a sunk fly the wings should be set on 

 last. This is not so neat, but they lay closer to the body 

 in the stream ; and if not too full of hackle or wing may 

 prove deadly. Never hurry your flies, but rather let the 



