CHAPTER X 



FLY FISHING 



THERE are innumerable 

 methods of fishing, and often 

 many ways of catching the 

 same variety of fish, some of 

 which call for a great amount 

 of skill that only experience 

 can give. The greatest of all, 

 where skill and accuracy both 

 are necessary, and which can 



A well-tied fly. , , , , , 



be acquired only by long and 



constant labor, is to fish with the fly. It is the most 

 graceful method of fishing, and the most difficult as 

 well. With but little practice, under a good tutor, a 

 fly can be cast in a way and fish caught. Unfortu- 

 nately, many fishermen are content with such a lim- 

 ited knowledge, believing that they know all regard- 

 ing this most skillful form of the sport, whereas, in 

 reality, they have scarcely mastered its rudiments. 

 First of all, to understand fly fishing one must 

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