Advantages of Many Casts 



this by no means follows. While in 

 England, where many purists cast only 

 at rising trout, not more than two or 

 three casts are usually made at any 

 one fish; yet generally the American 

 dry-fly angler has adopted entirely dif- 

 ferent rules. Some of our experts, 

 when they see a spot where they feel 

 sure that a good trout may be feeding, 

 cast in the same place over and over 

 again. There are well authenticated 

 cases where a trout has apparently 

 paid no attention to a dry-fly until 

 twenty or thirty casts have been made, 

 and then has come for it with a rush. 



Though I know that this doctrine is 

 diametrically opposed to the theories 

 of some English experts who have 

 practised the art of dry-fly fishing on 

 the English chalk streams for thirty or 

 forty years, or even more, yet at the 

 present time it would be impossible to 



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