70 DRY FLY FOR ALL TROUT STREAMS 



THE MIDDAY REST 



As the rise has now stopped and the sun is very 

 hot, we may as well take our luncheon in the grateful 

 shade of this willow, and resume our chat as regards 

 dry fly fishing. 



After fishing experiences embracing nearly every 

 portion of both hemispheres, I am confident that at 

 certain times and seasons the dry fly can be used with 

 success on any water which harbours a fish whose food 

 partly consists of any of the forms of the water insect 

 which attains, as one stage of its existence, a flying 

 state, and hence the importance of learning how to 

 use a dry fly. Even amid the brawling cascades of a 

 Norwegian foss there will be found places where the dry 

 fly is deadly. I remember on one such stream, which 

 tumbles some 1,500 feet down the side of the precipices 

 enclosing Vadheim, taking over twenty good trout 

 with a single dry fly, as I clambered up from pool to 

 pool to reach the lake from which the stream issues. 

 I have used the dry fly for perch in Australia ; for the 

 " yellow fish " (the Mahseer) of South Africa ; for 

 trout in the Scottish lakes and their brawling tribu- 

 taries ; on the Swedish lakes and rivers ; in Germany 

 on the lovely Wutach ; in the Black Forest and in 

 Austrian Tyrol ; in the chalk streams of Normandy, 

 etc. In fact, my experience tells me that in all trout 

 streams wherever water insects assume a flying con- 

 dition the dry fly can, at certain times and in certain 

 places, be used with the greatest success. I don't 



