FLY FISHING FOR TROUT 5 



many, if not all, the years of the average man's fishing life 

 will be stultified by mistaken conception and faulty efforts 

 to acquire an art which would otherwise have taken him 

 but a few hours to perfect. 



When a student is able to cast his fly lightly and accurately 

 in any required direction, he can then seek his trout stream, 

 and be in a position to fish with ever increasing delight 

 and confidence. With a little advice from any experienced 

 fisherman his progress should be rapid ; he should have 

 nothing to unlearn, and may, indeed, so far as science in 

 actual fly casting is concerned, step down to the water-side 

 more assured as to his casting than the one from whom he 

 has in other respects very much to learn. 



WET AND DRY FLY METHODS OF FISHING 



There are two distinct and widely different methods of 

 fishing with a trout fly, and these are known as the dry and 

 the wet fly methods. 



In the former, one fly only is used. This fly is cast up- 

 stream just above the rise, or above the spot at which the 

 trout is supposed to be lying, and is allowed to float down 

 towards the fish on the surface of the water. 



In the latter, from two to four flies should be attached 

 to the cast. These are cast either across and up-stream 

 or across and down-stream, and in both cases are allowed to 

 sink below the surface of the water. Wet fly fishing is 

 in itself thus divided into two distinct variations. In the 

 down-stream method of wet fly fishing the flies, at the end 

 of a long line and cast, are allowed to sink well below the 

 surface, and to be carried down-stream towards every spot 

 where trout may be lying. The stream is thus thoroughly 

 searched by the flies, both fish and lure being invisible to the 

 angler, and, in consequence, no dependence can be placed 

 on the rise of the fish being seen, the angler having, in most 



