The Dry -Fly's Allurements 



notes with the down-stream angler, the 

 author picked up his rod and ap- 

 proached the foot of the pool to see 

 if the dry-fly might not prove more 

 alluring to some of the trout that any 

 fisherman would naturally suppose 

 must live in such a pretty pool. At 

 the head of the pool the stream came 

 tumbling down in the form of a minia- 

 ture water-fall through a narrow space 

 between rocks. The accompanying 

 diagram (Fig 5) gives a fair idea of 

 this pool. In the shaded portions be- 

 tween the dotted lines and the banks 

 the water was shallow, the fishable part 

 of the pool being the channel between 

 the dotted lines. 



The method of fishing such a pool 

 has been outlined in the description of 

 our hypothetical pool, and the various 

 casts are indicated in the diagram by 

 the numerous letters X , each X indi- 



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