CHAPTER V 



WHERE AND WHEN TO USE THE 

 FLOATING FLY 



BEFORE going further into the details of 

 casting and fishing the dry fly it would 

 be well to consider at some length the 

 question of the best times and the most favor- 

 able places when and where the angler would 

 be wise to depend solely upon the floater. 

 That the fascination of dry fly fishing is such 

 that many fly-fishermen elect to practice no 

 other method under any and all conditions goes 

 without saying, but the fact remains that un- 

 der average American fly-fishing conditions the 

 floating fly is sometimes at a disadvantage and 

 the average American angler may well accept 

 this fact with good grace, using the dry or 

 sunken fly turn and turn about as the occasion 

 determines. In this I do not wish to be under- 

 stood as holding any brief for the wet as 

 against the dry fly for any such reason as that 

 " bigger bags " may at times be killed with the 

 wet fly than with the dry it is merely a ques- 

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