Unjust Suspicions of Fraud 



even more flies; every one fished down- 

 stream, and fished the water. Now 

 hosts of anglers have invaded the dis- 

 trict, the trout and grayling are as shy 

 and wary as any in the country, and 

 what is the result? Day after day, and 

 year after year, more of the successful 

 anglers in the district fish up-stream 

 with floating flies and over rising fish 

 only, and it is only on occasional blus- 

 tering days that one of the old school 

 succeeds in getting a moderate bag. 

 The same tale can be told of all parts 

 of the country, where the local anglers, 

 taught from childhood to fish with sunk 

 fly, laugh at the possibility of a bag 

 being made with the dry-fly. An ex- 

 ample of this: Not many years ago, 

 in Dorchester, one of the best dry-fly 

 fishermen of the day was seriously sus- 

 pected, and even accused, of not fish- 

 ing fair, because he succeeded in killing 



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