DRY-ELY FISHING. 



A Dry-Ply Purist's Advice to a Beginner. 



CHAPTEE I. 

 A FIRST DAY'S SPORT. 



IT is not my purpose to attempt to give you many 

 instructions as to " casting the dry-fly," nor do I 

 consider any man can learn to do it from books only, 

 admirable and precise as some of the directions 

 therein appear to be, and couched in most felicitous 

 language. You will do better to accompany an 

 expert friend on several occasions to the river- side, 

 and simply look on while he gives you a few lessons 

 and you try to learn by his example and practice 

 how the necessary rudimentary knowledge may 

 be acquired. Having followed this advice, and, 

 by invitation, watched the methods of " Bed 

 Quill," for a few sunny hours on six days in the 

 early spring the rise the play and the landing 

 of ten and a half brace of trout, averaging nearly 

 one and a half pounds each fish, you naturally are 

 all excitement, and you soon fix on your first leisure 



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