When Patience Has Its Limits 



dry-fly fishing that would generally ap- 

 peal to American anglers, even though 

 conditions on our streams made it at 

 all times possible. It is difficult to 

 imagine an American fly-fisherman so 

 patient that he would spend a day on 

 the stream without casting a fly. In 

 the first place, he enjoys the practice 

 of casting, whether the fish rise or not. 

 Then again, abundant experience has 

 taught our American anglers that on 

 some of our near-by streams they may 

 often pass an entire day without see- 

 ing a trout rise at a natural insect. 

 So the dry-fly angler of this country 

 begins casting when he reaches the 

 stream, more or less "for general re- 

 sults," as the Englishman might call 

 it; but the work of an American ex- 

 pert is not always a bungling perform- 

 ance, and frequently there is very little 

 "hit-or-miss" about it. He generally 



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