CHAPTER V 

 Trout Fishing with the Wet Fly 



THE enthusiasm which was the result of dry 

 fly fishing led at one time, amongst those who 

 were fortunate enough to be able to enjoy 

 it, to a tendency to disparage the older art of 

 using the wet fly. A comparison of the two 

 methods is always interesting, but it must never 

 be forgotten that it is not necessary, nor even 

 appropriate, to exalt the one at the expense of 

 the other. It is true that there are rivers on which 

 the two methods overlap, and where each can be 

 used, but even in such places it will be found that 

 the weather, the season, or the character of the 

 water decides from time to time in favour of one 



