WET-FLY FISHING 



CHAPTER I. 



INTBODUCTOBY HOW TO FISH METHODICALLY 

 WITH THE WET FLY. 



FISHING with the wet fly is but a term. 

 It is, however, a very correct term, for the 

 purely wet-fly fisherman never really seeks 

 to make his fly float on the surface of the 

 water ; never oils his fly with paraffin oil ; 

 never greases his reel-line with deer's fat, 

 and does not devote to a rising trout the 

 time that would seem all too long to listen 

 to a sermon; or to run and kill a 30-lb. 

 salmon. Battles have been lost and won, 

 in less time than is sometimes devoted to 

 the ensnaring of an Itchen trout. 



It would be, in these advanced days, 

 impossible to tackle a work such as this 

 without referring to the dry-fly school: it 

 would be equally unwise and absurd to 



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