Practical Dry-Fly Fishing 



in his favorite method of fishing. This 

 opinion was confirmed later when I 

 learned that he had the reputation of 

 being an expert, and had fished this 

 particular stream for years. After he 

 had covered the pool thoroughly, he 

 sat beside me and told the story of his 

 day's work. He had fished since 5.30 

 A. M., and up to this time about 

 5.30 P. M. had caught only two trout, 

 neither of them much above the legal 

 limit; in the pretty pool, lying almost 

 at our feet, he had not had a rise. The 

 water was extremely low, and for sev- 

 eral feet on the right-hand side of the 

 pool (properly the left-hand bank, but 

 on the right hand to one fishing up- 

 stream) large areas of the bed of the 

 stream were entirely bare. There was 

 left in the centre and on the left-hand 

 side a run of fairly deep water, only a 

 few feet in width. After comparing 



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