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not learned to throw well or who cannot disguise 

 their movements while casting is to find that 

 they have 'put the fish down. 1 Something has 

 caught his eye, or aroused his suspicions 

 perhaps a friend from below running up stream 

 and calling out the news and his form, or his 

 furrow, can be detected as he moves away. 



Or if in deeper water he merely drops under 

 the nearest weed bed, and ceases all surface 

 feeding. In either case it is no good continuing 

 to cast. 



A man thoroughly bitten by dry fly fishing 

 a purist in fact never throws on chance; 

 indeed he does not throw over a fish he sees 

 or knows to inhabit a certain spot. He looks 

 out for a rising fish and casts for it alone 

 sometimes devotes an hour to it, and generally 

 ends by pricking, hooking, or getting it. 



Without attempting to belittle wet fly fishing, 

 clear water worming, or spinning a minnow, all 

 of which require just as much art, science and 

 practice as throwing a dry fly and which in 

 addition demand a far superior knowledge of 

 the habits of fish at all different seasons this 

 latter process appeals to me, and many, as by 

 far the most pleasurable. 



Occasionally, it is the only way of catching 

 trout or grayling in club waters. When 

 executed well over a feeding fish it more often 

 succeeds than fails to deceive him ; and, should 

 the strike be equally well judged and every- 

 thing hold until his weight is felt in the net 

 as he is lifted well over the bank and dumped 



