Sz LAKE AND STREAM GAME FISHING 



whipped with more success and pleasure than by 

 either one of the methods alone. 



ALL KINDS OF WATER 



Most of our trout fishing is on streams in the 

 woods or wilderness where the waters alternate be- 

 tween rapids and smooth spots, waterfall and deep 

 pool, shallows or riffles, and one could follow a 

 stream all day without lamping a trout on the rise 

 for food, so that if he were fishing in the orthodox 

 English way, bacon fried to a crisp would about make 

 up his evening meal. This accounts for the fact that 

 we have changed the dope a bit and fish the dry-fly 

 more as a floating fly without the added effort of 

 tossing the feathers into the mouth of the waiting 

 trout and tickling him to death. 



On a very civilized stream that has been fished 

 to a fare-you-well by all manner of fishermen, where 

 the trout have wised up to tricks of the game, the 

 dry-fly will get a rise when the wet-fly would merely 

 cause a wink of the weather eye. 



In casting the dry-fly the fisherman works up- 

 stream, casting slightly across the current, so that the 

 floating fly will ride down with the current, and a 

 very essential detail is to cast lightly and accurately, 

 while it is not necessary to cast as long a line as in 

 wet-fly casting. The whole game is to have the fly 

 float down as naturally as possible, and it requires 

 considerable skill in the handling of the rod and the 



