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rougher and more rapid streams, such as the Wharfe, 

 Ribble, Lune, etc., the position is reversed. 



Not many years ago one very seldom came across 

 anyone further North than Derbyshire fishing the 

 dry fly, but slowly and surely has the method become 

 more and more popular ; for it is only by the judicious 

 combination of the two methods of fly fishing that the 

 best results and the greatest pleasure can, in the judg- 

 ment of the writers, be obtained. But chacun a son 

 gout, and far be it from them to legislate for any 

 sportsmen who wish or agree to keep their waters 

 exclusively for any one method of fishing. 



Dry-fly fishing, as practised in the South, differs 

 slightly from the method here advocated for the 

 rougher streams above-mentioned, inasmuch as the 

 purist of the South will not throw a fly to any but a 

 rising fish, even though he wait an hour or more 

 before locating one, while the North Country angler 

 not only throws to the rise, but also to such places as 

 are likely to hold feeding fish. 



When a specially strong hatch of duns takes place on 

 Northern rivers and the fish line up to suck in the 

 insects as they hurry downstream, sails spread to the 

 breeze, it will pay the angler to try the floater. Again, 

 between streams on rapid rivers one often comes upon 

 a long stretch of quiet steady flowing water ideal for 

 the dry fly. By applying themselves to such a stretch 

 with the methods of their friends of the South the 



