Practical Dry-Fly Fishing 



eating a spot where the fly was placed. 

 The places indicated by the letters 0, 

 show the various positions taken by 

 the angler as he moved up-stream. 

 The first three casts were at the very 

 beginning of the good water, and a rise 

 was hardly expected. These might 

 well be called preliminary casts. But 

 hope began to rise in the angler's breast 

 as the second series of casts was begun; 

 and with reason, for as the fly touched 

 the water at the second cast of this 

 series (indicated by A), a rainbow trout 

 of about ten inches rose to the fly and 

 missed. The pool was then covered 

 carefully by the series of casts shown 

 in the diagram, and there was not an- 

 other sign of a fish until the fly had 

 reached the position J3, where a twelve- 

 inch brown trout was hooked, and be- 

 fore it had recovered from its aston- 

 ishment had been rapidly and forcibly 

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