Practical Dry-Fly Fishing 



except that it must be borne in mind 

 that in these diagrams it is not clearly 

 shown that both line and fly are con- 

 stantly moving, though at different 

 speeds, and that as they go down- 

 stream their relative positions would be 

 ever changing. In Fig. 6 the centre 

 of the line, the current in midstream 

 being swifter, would have a constantly 

 increasing downward curve, while in 

 Fig. 7 the curve would be upward. 

 But the positions of line and fly would 

 be moving constantly down-stream. 

 The diagrams have been drawn in this 

 simple form to prevent the confusion 

 that might result from complicated 

 drawings attempting to show the al- 

 ways changing curves in the line. 



The drag is again in evidence when 

 one casts the fly up-stream on a com- 

 paratively smooth piece of water, while 

 the line falls on a swifter current be- 

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