CHAPTER III 

 A DAY'S FISHING (continued). 



The Luncheon Hour A consideration of the effectiveness of the dry 

 fly Rising water and its effect on trout Method of manipulating 

 the line Hand-lining Water weeds and Trout The left hand and 

 the reel Something to remember The selection of the fly. 



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

 may as well take our luncheon in the grateful shade of this 

 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, 

 which tumbles some 1,000 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 the stream issues. 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 ; on Lake Superior, amid the Rockies, in 



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