Practical Dry-Fly Fishing 



convince many American anglers that 

 it is not advisable on our streams to 

 cast over promising water until one is 

 well satisfied that the trout supposed 

 to be there is beyond hope of being 

 lured to the surface at that particular 

 time. One of my acquaintances, who 

 had been a successful dry-fly fisherman 

 for more than a quarter of a century, 

 caught his first large trout with the 

 dry-fly, after a day of discouragement, 

 on the thirty-sixth cast, all the casts 

 being made at one spot in the pool; 

 and he met with this first success only 

 after having been compelled by Mr. 

 LaBranche, who was standing by his 

 side, to cast over this trout until he 

 got it. 



In the author's make-up there may 

 be something akin to obstinacy that 

 often makes him linger long below a 

 particularly alluring stretch of water, 



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