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taxidermist to be set up. You will always remember 

 your first big fish, and, therefore, you will always regret it, 

 unless you have this one stuffed. See Plate HA. 



THE MIDDAY REST. 



As the rise has now stopped, and the sun is very 

 hot, we may as well take our luncheon in the shade of yon 

 delightful 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, tumbling 

 some 1500 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 this stream issued. 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 tributaries ; on the Swedish lakes and rivers ; in 

 Germany on the lovely Wutach ; in the Black Forest and in 

 the Austrian Tyrol ; in the chalk streams of Normandy, etc. 



