Practical Dry-Fly Fishing 



ment of the author, for the wet fly 

 appears in Mr. G. E. M. Skues' "Minor 

 Tactics of the Chalk Stream," pub- 

 lished in 1908. Mr. Skues is as great 

 a believer in the imitation theory as 

 the members of the dry-fly school, uses 

 imitation insects no larger than the 

 tiny flies of the dry-fly angler, and 

 casts the fly in exactly the same man- 

 ner as the dry-fly fishermen, that 

 is, up-stream; but his flies sink, and 

 are borne down by the current be- 

 neath the surface. That they may not 

 sink too deeply he oils the leader up 

 to within a few inches of the fly so 

 that all but one or two links of the 

 gut will float upon the surface. In a 

 debate held at a meeting of the An- 

 glers' Club of New York in March, 

 1912, on the subject of the dry-fly 

 versus the wet fly, the very strongest 

 arguments used by those who spoke 

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