66 Wet- Fly Fishing 



differences which often take pages of 

 printed matter to ventilate, go for very 

 little indeed, in actual practice. 



Hard work, intelligent interest, enthu- 

 siasm, observation, manual and digital 

 dexterity, solid common-sense not least, 

 though last named these are the things 

 which make the successful fly-fisherman. 



As I have written pretty fully of the 

 methods recommended for the proper fishing 

 of Scottish tributary streams, i.e. " waters/ 1 

 I hope I may be forgiven if I, at times, 

 seem to repeat myself; for, of course, a 

 "river" being only a big edition of a 

 " water " (sometimes its own former self, 

 when young and half -grown), it is im- 

 possible to get away from the fact that 

 in many points our methods possess a 

 similarity. 



In some important details, however, 

 there is a marked dissimilarity between the 

 methods employed by the wet-fly fisher- 

 man, when fishing " waters " and " rivers " ; 

 so, having endeavoured to enumerate my 

 methods in the one, I shall now do my 

 best to describe my own method as a wet- 

 fly fisherman, in the other class parent- 

 rivers, in fact. 



I think I may say, that the larger the 



