DRY FLY 45 



The artist is now ready, and looks out for one 

 particular trout rising in a special spot. He then 

 stalks his fish from below with all conceivable 

 caution until within as easy casting distance as 

 possible, commensurate with concealment from 

 the trout's view. With an eye for obstacles 

 about, he will deliver his cast upstream so as to 

 place the fly, which should drop like a snowflake, 

 about one foot just above where the rise was last 

 noticed. Since the ripples of a rise are sure to 

 be carried downstream in currents, and the exact 

 spot, therefore, liable to be missed, it is as well 

 to mark the rising-place by some object on the 

 bank, as a certain weed, etc. In casting thus it is 

 necessary so to regulate the length of line that a 

 very little more of it is allowed out than is actually 

 needed to place the fly. A slight draw-in of the 

 point of the rod on the completion of the cast and 

 before the fly falls will help to set things right. 

 For if the length of the line cast was only just 

 sufficient to reach the desired spot, what is 

 termed ' drag ' might result, and this is fatal to 

 successful deception. ' Drag ' simply means any 

 unnaturally rapid motion of the fly across the 

 stream caused by the sagging of the line. 



Once the fly falls no motion whatever is given 

 it ; it simply floats down over where the trout 



