A DAY'S DRY FLY FISHING 17 



be in the early months of the year, however great is the 

 art of using the sunken lure on a dry fly stream during the 

 rest of the year still, the method of dry fly fishing will, 

 season by season, claim an ever-increasing number of 

 devotees. 



There are many excellent dry fly fishermen whose 

 greatest pleasure is to devote themselves to killing some 

 particularly big or wily trout, and who, with this intent, 

 neglect other and more easily caught trout in order to creel 

 this the one object of their sport. There are others who 

 will cast for none other than a rising fish, viz., a fish which 

 they or their gillie may have been lucky enough to notice 

 when rising, and who, failing to spot such a rise, are content 

 to linger for long hours mooning about the bank of the trout 

 stream, until they or their man happen to spot a rising 

 fish.* Such men look upon the fisherman who fishes for a 

 fish which he sees, or which he knows will be located in any 

 definite position but which may not be rising as a sort 

 of poacher, or at the best as wanting in sporting instincts. 



There are others and good fishermen too whose great 

 pleasure is to see the fish before casting, and thus to have 

 the delight of watching the rise, when they cast to the fish 

 they have spotted. These at least are most likely to learn 

 how to temper their methods to suit the fish, for they have 

 the advantage of seeing the effect they produce when 

 casting. 



There are others I am one of them who may not possess 

 the keenness of vision always to see the fish below the 

 surface, who may not have the leisure to moon about a trout 

 stream, waiting, like the sick at the pool of Siloam, for the 

 stirring of the waters, but whose principal delight is that, by 

 the skilfulness of their casting, their knowledge of the fish, 



* A tendency fostered by their having to confine their fishing to a limited 

 amount of water. 



