Practical Dry-Fly Fishing 



deer, and other varieties of wild ani- 

 mals, and had, as a rule, carried at least 

 one fishing-rod with him on most of his 

 trips, if not on all. I knew that he 

 had been successful in luring many 

 kinds of game-fish, as I had seen some 

 of his records; and had also examined, 

 mounted in his office, fine specimens of 

 large bass, silver trout, ouananiche, 

 muscalonge, and other inhabitants of 

 the streams and lakes. 



A day or two before this question 

 was asked an article written by the au- 

 thor had appeared, the general purpose 

 of which had been to place the ques- 

 tion seriously before American anglers, 

 as to why they had not taken more in- 

 terest in this most fascinating branch 

 of angling, used so extensively for many 

 years on the English chalk streams, 

 and recognized almost universally by 

 British anglers as the most sportsman- 



