Casting on Glassy Glides 



all stretches of rough water, however 

 swift and turbulent, there are little 

 smooth spots that might be properly 

 called glassy glides.* Cast your fly at 

 the top of one of these glides, and it 

 will float perfectly until it is seized by 

 a trout or reaches the turbulent water. 

 While the fly will often float suc- 

 cessfully over a rough surface, yet, if 

 it is sucked under, the angler is cer- 

 tainly in no worse position than the 

 user of the sunken fly under his very 

 best conditions. After having been 

 through these swift waters, the fly may 

 have a bedraggled appearance, and 

 look like anything but the natty in- 

 sect, with wings erect, that it was when 

 first taken from the fly box. The an- 

 gler should take an old handkerchief, or 



* This idea of fishing these glassy glides with a 

 dry-fly appeared in an article written in 1911 by Mr. 

 Walter McGuckin, one of New York's best dry-fly 

 anglers. 



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