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mented with the dry-fly on home waters are not, on the 

 whole, over-enthusiastic, although in individual cases 

 some very remarkable successes have been recorded. 

 The paucity of results may be due, although I have 

 never seen it suggested, to the characteristic difference 

 between the native and the brown trout. The dry-fly 

 method has been evolved almost purely as a means of 

 taking the latter, and it seems not unreasonable that 

 an effective method for taking the one should fail some- 

 what in the case of the other. Dry-fly fishing should 

 be entirely successful on any suitable American stream 

 abounding in brown trout, for, although there are 

 slight variations of habit between the brown trout of 

 British and those of American streams, they are not of 

 such a degree or nature as to render it probable that a 

 method so successful on the other side should be much 

 less effective here. But the water must be suitable; 

 that is, not too swift and broken. 



Purely as a sporting proposition the brown trout is 



a decided success. In other words, he puts up a good 



fight. There are marked differences, 



* ,?? however, between the way a brown 

 Qualities. .. ,, , , . n 



trout conducts himself when taking a fly 



and thereafter and the behavior of the native. Especi- 

 ally noteworthy is the fact that very often the brown 

 trout will leap on a slack line. Artists who illustrate 

 the sportsmen's periodicals are fond of picturing the 

 brook trout leaping high in the air with all the ease 

 and athletic ability of the small-mouthed black bass, 

 the Atlantic salmon, or the tarpon, but the observant 

 and experienced reader, although he may condone the 



