Practical Dry-Fly Fishing 



cacy of "fishing the stream" instead 

 of "stalking the fish" and "fishing 

 the rise" only, may seem heretical to 

 what is known as the dry-fly "purist" 

 of England. In this book we shall cast 

 our fly wherever our judgment tells 

 us that there should be a trout. Mr. 

 George A. B. Dewar, in his most ex- 

 cellent work, "The Book of the Dry- 

 Fly," says: "The best short descrip- 

 tion of the difference between wet and 

 dry-fly fishing is that which describes 

 the first as 'fishing the stream' and the 

 second as 'fishing the rise." We can- 

 not agree with this; there is no good 

 reason for not " fishing the stream " with 

 the floating fly. Then again we shall 

 endeavor to show that while in Eng- 

 land the dry-fly is considered the proper 

 method to use only on smooth, placid 

 water, yet it is equally efficacious on our 

 swifter and more turbulent streams. 



