CHAPTER IV 



The Little Pang 



Dry-fly fishing is a branch of the angler's 

 art which has only been developed within the 

 last quarter of a century. Neither Walton 

 nor Cotton ever dreamt of such a thing in 

 their philosophies, and even now the practice 

 is not very commonly resorted to by trout 

 fishermen save in the case of the clear-running 

 streams of the south of England and one 

 or two of the Derbyshire and Staff^ordshire 

 waters.^ On many of the chalk streams of 

 the south it is essential to success. The 

 Pang, which enters the Thames at Pang- 

 bourne, is not one of the regular dry-fly 



^ But Mr. Cheney, the head of the great piscicultural 

 department of the United States, writes telling me he 

 believes it will be resorted to in America. 



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