Introduction 



days as the one accepted method of 

 taking trout on American streams; 

 while the further prediction is confi- 

 dently advanced that at least on the 

 best known, most constantly fished 

 streams of New York and Pennsyl- 

 vania, and other similar waters, the 

 dry-fly will rapidly supplant the wet 



fly. 



Mr. Halford and other English writ- 

 ers have treated the dry-fly as a lure 

 for the smooth, placid chalk streams 

 of southern England. The writer will 

 endeavor to show that it is equally 

 efficient when used on our American 

 streams, where conditions are some- 

 what different. Therefore, while en- 

 dorsing in general the methods of Mr. 

 Halford, the author will write from 

 the stand-point of an American angler, 

 and will give simple directions, so far 

 as he is able, for using this most fas- 



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