Practical Dry-Fly Fishing 



a delight to mention these shining 

 lights, and endeavor to show wherein 

 they excelled in new ideas of value to 

 the angling world. 



While Mr. Pulman explained dry-fly 

 methods in 1851, yet when Mr. Hal- 

 ford began to write, after an exhaust- 

 ive study made on the trout streams 

 themselves, he had practically a virgin 

 field before him. Therefore his early 

 books were entirely original in concep- 

 tion, they described clearly and fully 

 this important method of angling, and 

 were contributions to angling literature 

 of great and lasting value. That all 

 writers coming after him must neces- 

 sarily go over a certain part of the 

 ground covered by him, however much 

 they might differ with him in minor 

 details, follows as a matter of course; 

 for the entire theory of dry-fly fishing 

 is founded on a comparatively few basic 



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