Practical Dry-Fly Fishing 



fishing was originally invented in Eng- 

 land for use on slow, clear, placid 

 streams, and as comparatively smooth 

 water is often considered more or less 

 necessary to the successful floating of 

 the fly, our first practice will be made 

 upon a pool. For the sake of simplicity 

 we will say that the pool is of more or 

 less regular shape, some twenty feet 

 long, and in the neighborhood of ten 

 feet wide; also for our purpose we will 

 assume that it is all good trout water, 

 from head to tail and from bank to 

 bank. While the surface of the water 

 is not ruffled, yet there is a fairly good 

 current, slightly swifter at the centre 

 of the stream than near the banks. We 

 are supposed to have already fished the 

 waters below the tail of the pool, so 

 we need pay no attention to them now. 

 We are wading, and we take our 

 stand a few feet below the pool, a 



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