CHAPTER VIII 



How the Dry-fly May Be Used 

 on Rough Waters as Well as 

 on Placid Pools 



EVEN in fishing the little pool 

 that we have just left we have 

 violated the principles of some 

 of the English dry-fly purists, and now 

 that we are approaching swifter and 

 rougher water to fish it with the dry- 

 fly, we are about to make a still more 

 radical departure from the English 

 purist's methods. But, however much 

 the British dry-fly fisherman might 

 protest from a distance that he would 

 not in any circumstances imitate 

 American anglers in putting the float- 

 ing fly to such uses, yet I am almost 

 convinced that if he were to cast a fly 



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