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ing possibly a three-pounder. Starting to cast with 

 two things in mind, that many times the pool is best 

 fished up-stream and that, other things being equal, a 

 short line is always safest, the angler will cover all 

 available water with a moderate length of line, and 

 then, picking out some vantage-point where the back 

 cast may be made with the greatest assurance that it 

 will not hang-up, he will whip the far-off places where 

 his stream experience hints that a trout may be lying. 



The angler of limited casting ability is distinctly 

 handicapped when it comes to fishing a large pool. 

 Furthermore it is a fact that the ability to get out a 

 long line, although with entire lack of delicacy, and 

 though the flies hit the water as if shot from a rifle, is 

 far better than not to be able to handle anything but a 

 short line; for, many times, the character of. the pool 

 will be such that distance and fair accuracy are the only 

 requisites. In a pool of broken, swirling water, foam- 

 covered and swift, it makes little difference whether 

 the flies come down lightly or not. When fishing this 

 sort of water the submerged fly is the proper thing, 

 and the situation demands only the ability, by strong- 

 arm methods or in any other way, to get out the line 

 far enough. 



Fly-fishing for trout is usually and properly asso- 

 ciated with swift and rocky streams. We are told by 

 the scientists that the nature of the brook 



* is ^ li y l S trout requires highly aerated water such 



Streams as t ^ e ^P^ trout stream with its al- 

 ternating riffles, rapids, and falls affords. 

 But the experienced fly-caster can doubtless remember 



