Practical Dry-Fly Fishing 



feeding place, resting the water from 

 time to time, and then sat down to 

 think it over, deciding after a few more 

 casts to go on up-stream. In what I 

 had decided would be the final en- 

 deavor, probably from fifteen to twenty 

 casts had been made, when I was re- 

 warded by the rise of a trout of just 

 about the size that I had imagined 

 must be lurking in such a splendid run. 

 Mr. H. G. McClelland, the author of a 

 bright little English work on artificial 

 flies, advances the theory that flies may 

 be "cast and recast so as to create the 

 idea that flies of this sort are passing 

 over the fish in large numbers." While 

 the author thoroughly believes in the 

 idea of floating a fly many times over 

 a spot where the angler is convinced 

 that a good trout lies, yet it should be 

 remembered that the utmost degree of 

 skill must be shown to make every cast 



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