28 DOWN STREAM UP STREAM DRY FLY. 



on the grass, the cup of satisfaction is filled 

 to the brim with no after taste of fluke or 

 unfairness. One more advantage can be cited, 

 that as a rule one can make an accurate guess 

 of the size of a rising fish and so devote time, 

 energy and skill to one worth basketing. 



A dry fly man on rivers where pounders are 

 rare is more likely to have one in his creel than 

 any down stream angler, or than his fellows 

 who fish wet, unless they have great experience 

 of the water, like that acquired by residents 

 after a dozen seasons. He often captures trout 

 or grayling from close under his own bank, 

 perhaps in quite shallow water, which the less 

 guarded approach of the wet fly fisherman might 

 scare into its holt. And lastly occasionally 

 notably on a hot July afternoon when good 

 fish are midging under bushes in sluggish 

 water will bring back a basket of half-a-dozen 

 fine trout when other rods have declared that 

 the fish will take nothing. 



There is the reverse I know : the dry fly man, 

 as he describes himself, sage, sour, and 

 superior with nothing in his creel highly 

 critical of all other methods but his own, 

 almost thanking goodness that he has caught 

 nothing, sitting alongside a genial angler who 

 says he prefers a wet fly and produces two 

 brace of trout whose tastes had sympathised 

 with his own. 



