FLY-FISHING FOE TEOUT IN THE EANGELY 

 REGION. 



BY 



HENEY P. WELLS. 



THE cosmopolitan angler, lie who wets his line in 

 many waters in many localities, recognizes and is gov- 

 erned by one truth, of the existence of which the experi- 

 ence of him who confines his fly-fishing to a single re- 

 stricted locality, gives no intimation. 



The conservative Englishman differs from the more pro- 

 gressive American, and the phlegmatic Dutchman from 

 the vivacious Frenchman. All may be gentlemen in the 

 highest sense of the term, yet each has his local whims 

 and peculiarities, a due deference to which is one of the 

 conditions of successful and profitable intercourse with 

 him. 



The widely experienced angler recognizes these local 

 differences in trout, as in men. He therefore stocks his 

 fly-book with many sizes of many-colored flies ; while the 

 other contents himself with half a dozen varieties, possibly 

 of two slightly different sizes, and smiles with scarcely 

 disguised pity and contempt at the, in his opinion, quan- 

 tity of useless lumber which fills the former's fly-book 



