CHAPTER VI. 



HINTS TO DRY-FLY FISHERMEN. 



FANCY I can hear the readers of the 

 preceding chapters exclaim, " True, you 

 have given us a considerable amount . 

 of information about the materials required, and 

 the best methods of tying floating flies. True, 

 we have a goodly list of patterns of floating flies, 

 and the feathers, &c., for dressing them ; but not 

 one word, as yet, as to how we are to use these 

 infallible devices." This train of reasoning ap- 

 pears so cogent that, although in the original 

 conception of the work there was no intention of 

 referring to this branch of the subject, I will try 

 and give a few practical hints on dry-fly fishing, 

 leaving anything like a full treatise on so important 

 a matter to a future volume, which I hope some 

 day to submit to the Angling world. 



For obvious reasons it is as well not to enter on 

 any controversy as to the comparative merits of 

 the two schools of fly-fishing : the wet or North 

 Country style, and the dry or South Country style. 

 Each is beyond doubt effective in its own particu- 



