The Fishing of Waters with the Wet Fly 47 



That very practical professional fisher- 

 man, Adam Dryden, goes too far in his 

 sweeping condemnation of the pools, when 

 he says, " Anglers think that a deep pool 

 is the place in which they are sure to find 

 trout. This is a mistake; you ought to 

 fish twenty or thirty yards above or below 

 the pool, for any fish which may be in it it 

 is almost impossible to take." 



There is a substratum of truth in these 

 remarks. 



We must always sift out the wheat 

 and reject the chaff, when weighing state- 

 ments such as these. One would think, 

 to read the lines I have quoted, that all 

 Dryden's pools were of a certain well- 

 defined character and all practically worth- 

 less to the fly-fisherman and that the 

 waters above and below such pools were 

 of a more or less uniform character: one 

 of excellence, of course. 



He does not mean anything so sweeping. 

 Much of the solid truth, in such a small 

 book, the thinking reader will find between 

 the lines. 



Next, let us consider how to tackle 

 reaches of moderately deep water, flow- 

 ing amongst rocks and boulders, and, in 

 fact, broken water. The wading is often 



