Practical Dry-Fly Fishing 



does not wet his line. Some of this 

 cult carry field-glasses with which they 

 scan the surface of the stream. 



These methods undoubtedly mark a 

 very high type of sportsmanship in an- 

 gling; perhaps I should be somewhat 

 tempted to say the highest type of 

 sportsmanship if I did not have reason 

 to believe that our method of taking a 

 fish that has not already indicated its 

 exact location to the fisherman requires 

 at least as much skill on the part of 

 the angler as the purist's method of 

 fishing the rise only, where the exact 

 whereabouts of the fish is known. It 

 seems to me that when an angler sees 

 a rising fish, within casting distance, 

 the battle is at least half won. 



An American, with a mind capable 

 of seeing humorous features in almost 

 all things, and also at times not be- 

 yond the temptation of indulging in 



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