58 THE SCIENCE OF DRY FLY FISHING, 



In fact, my experience tells me that in all trout streams, 

 wherever water insects assume a flying condition, the 

 dry fly can, at certain times and in certain places, be used 

 with the greatest success. I don't believe that any trout 

 stream can be claimed solely as a wet fly stream. 



Why, only last summer several well-known wet fly 

 fishermen staying at Llangammarch Wells Hotel on the 

 Erfon, a beautiful Welsh river, had for some weeks given 

 up all attempts to catch trout, and, being invited over by the 

 Host of that excellent hotel, I converted every fisherman 

 there to the usefulness of the dry fly method by killing four- 

 teen fine fish my first afternoon, and seventeen as good fish the 

 following day, fishing with the Stone Fly, in the dry fly method. 

 On the lovely little Sid, in Devonshire, equally as on the 

 waters of the Ithon, on the Otter as on the waters of 

 the Welsh Wye, on the Lambourne as on the waters of 

 the Coquet, or the Eden, or the Derbyshire Wye, the dry 

 fly will, in June, July and August, be as effective as 

 is the wet fly in March and April. It is on the correct 

 choice of the use of either method that the greatest success 

 depends. When the trout are being taken freely by the dry 

 fly method, the wet fly fishermen would be well advised to 

 adopt that method, and vice versa. For dead or perfectly 

 smooth water, especially later in the year, the dry fly method 

 of fishing is without doubt the better. 



Take the Wye about Bakewell, the Dove in the neigh- 

 bourhood of the Dove Holes, the Itchen above Basingstoke, 



