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would take many days of steady casting 

 to cover them with a fly. While small 

 trout are found almost everywhere, the 

 large ones may easily be overlooked in 

 some few square yards of water which 

 they occupy to-day and desert to-mor- 

 row, and there is room for exercise of 

 wits in discovering and attracting them. 

 I admit freely that extreme delicacy in 

 casting is not essential, and, so far as I 

 am aware, dry-fly fishing is not prac- 

 tised in Canada. Not only is there no 

 necessity for it, but I doubt whether an 

 exponent of that graceful art would 

 meet with much success. The most 

 effective work is done with the drowned 

 fly, and it appears to present the 

 strongest allurement when brought 

 through the water with a series of 

 quick and almost jerky motions, sug- 

 gesting to the trout, as I think, the 

 movements of the tail or fin of a small 

 fish near the surface. To complete the 

 comparison, I allow that our heavier 



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