WET-FLY FISHING 



The speed with which a fly nears and goes past 

 a fish has everything to do with its attractiveness 

 to him. At times the fly must move just as slowly 

 as possible, with a steady motion. At other 

 times it must be cast up-stream and drawn past 

 the fish rather fast, then lowered back and drawn 

 up a second time; this manoeuvre makes him come. 

 I have never noticed any good results from shaking 

 the tip of the rod. If you watch the fly in the 

 water when some one is doing this, you will see 

 that it does not affect the fly at all, as all the mo- 

 tion is taken up by the line and leader long before 

 it reaches the fly. 



I remember fishing one afternoon with Mr. 

 Monell on the Upsalquitch in very clear water. 

 We could see many salmon in all the good places, 

 and he was giving me pointers. One pool had 

 some brush and logs at the side and several fish 

 were lying close to them. I made many casts for 

 them and failed to raise any. He then took my 

 rod and cast across the stream about thirty or 

 forty feet above the fish and let the fly drift down 

 with a slack leader. When it came about ten feet 

 from the fish he raised the tip of the rod and 

 tightened a little on the line. This caused the fly 

 to swing across the current directly in front of the 



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