Practical Dry-Fly Fishing 



comparatively recently, in a published 

 work, expressed the opinion that dry- 

 fly fishing will not find many adherents 

 in this country, "for one reason, that 

 the dry-fly must be cast up-stream, 

 which will never be a favorite method 

 with American anglers for well-known 



reasons." 



Can these "well-known reasons" 

 existing in Dr. Henshall's mind be 

 perhaps more potent than those ad- 

 vanced by Mr. Robert Blakey, who, 

 in a book published in 1846, speaks of 

 the "almost impossibility" of a trout 

 seizing a fly cast up-stream, claiming 

 that "even if he should take it the 

 power is lost to retain him," and class- 

 ifies up-stream fishing as among "the 

 many crotchety and fanciful rules that 

 often come to light in the progress of 

 angling"? 



Let the beginners, however, who 



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