Practical Dry-Fly Fishing 



English dry-fly angler's custom of fish- 

 ing smooth water almost exclusively is 

 responsible for the belief, extensively 

 held, that the floating fly is not suit- 

 able for our American streams. But 

 suppose that conditions were suddenly 

 changed; imagine for a moment that 

 the English chalk streams ceased to 

 exist in their present form, and were 

 replaced by the more turbulent Ameri- 

 can streams, presenting rare opportuni- 

 ties of seeing a rising fish. Would the 

 English purist give up his favorite 

 sport, or pass many days in looking for 

 a rise that came not? Or would he 

 make a study of the parts of the stream 

 most likely to be the feeding places of 

 trout, and begin casting over them, 

 taking a chance of enticing a fish to 

 his fly, though he had not previously 

 seen a rise? 



Granting, then, that it is not only 



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