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I have done so, and I am glad to see that 

 you treat the matter so impartially. 



"I have been an angler as long as I 

 can remember anything, and that is getting 

 on for half a century ; for many years after 

 I began fly-fishing I fished only in the wet- 

 fly style, afterwards I took to the dry-fly 

 style as well; and what I cannot for the 

 life of me see is why one angler should not 

 adopt both styles, as I and many others do. 

 I only wish you had been able to join me, 

 as I hoped you would, on the Tweed, at 

 Kelso, early in May, 1901. I think I could 

 then have proved to you that it pays to use 

 both styles on the Tweed, and not only at 

 different times, but at the same time. 



"One afternoon, when fishing on the 

 Upper Floors Water, in about three hours 

 I killed a nice basket of over 12 Ibs. of 

 trout, all with the fly, and quite two-thirds 

 with the dry fly. I used your double-hook 

 midges, three on my cast (" GreenwelTs 

 Glory" and "Iron Blue " did best). I 

 fished all three flies first dry and then 

 wet. I also fished with two of the flies dry 

 and one wet, or one dry and two wet, and 

 this in the rapid broken water of the streams 

 as well as on the pools. It is a great 

 mistake to think dry-fly fishing must be 



