Practical Dry-Fly Fishing 



seen, again in the judgment of the au- 

 thor the one best lure is the floating 

 fly. One of my friends, whose name is 

 a household word among men fond of 

 the great out-doors, recently stated that 

 a stream which flows through the lands 

 on which his summer home is situated 

 had been, in his opinion, practically 

 "fished out" for several years. "Yet 

 one day last summer," he said, "two 

 dry-fly anglers came up from New 

 York. I went to the stream to watch 

 them. They were taking trout at al- 

 most every cast and returning them 

 to the stream." I predict that ere 

 long this gentleman will become a dry- 

 fly enthusiast, if he has not already 

 reached that stage. 



Mr. Halford says in his "Dry-Fly 

 Fishing in Theory and Practice": "In 

 Derbyshire, a few years back, every 

 one used two, and many three, four, or 



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