

CHAPTER II 

 Dry Fly Fishing 



IT is with much diffidence that any attempt 

 can be made to describe the delights of 

 dry fly fishing. Those who know and practise 

 the art best are the epicures amongst anglers; 

 they have carried both the skill and pleasure 

 of angling to a height of exquisite refinement, 

 and to them I fear that any detailed account 

 of a day's dry fly fishing must seem inadequate. 

 There are, however, other less fortunate anglers 

 whom circumstances have prevented from becom- 

 ing acquainted with the use of the dry fly on 



