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It is, however, only when your fly is on the water that this 

 vigilance is imperative, and the fisherman has practically 

 every other moment of the long and delicious summer day 

 in which to enjoy the loveliness of his surroundings. No 

 patience is required in undertaking this pleasing duty. 

 The fascinating expectation of an answering rise to your 

 scientific and delicate cast will be as strong and as inspiring 

 during the final cast of your day's fishing as it was during 

 the first cast. It is this absorbing pleasure of looking for 

 and anticipating immediate action during the whole length 

 of an innings from morning till night, which constitutes 

 one of the principal charms of dry fly fishing, and which 

 places it so far above wet fly fishing down stream, or, in 

 my opinion, any other sport. 



The difference between the two methods, fishing up 

 and fishing down, may be compared to the intellectual 

 pleasure and anticipation of the sportsman during every 

 moment of a long and arduous day in September when 

 shooting over well trained pointers or setters, and the jaded 

 indifference of the gunner who strides along, with his principal 

 sense, sight after the first few hours used solely to keep him 

 in line and out of ditches, etc., only to be suddenly aroused 

 and jerked back to the realities of life by the nerve jarring 

 rush of the birds he has chanced to kick up. 



Now watch me carefully once more. The fish you put 

 down are again rising and I am going to try for the big 

 fellow right under the bank. He has shifted in quite close, 



D.F. B 



