Practical Dry-Fly Fishing 



As a matter of fact, the "mathema- 

 tical pool" was used to express, in the 

 simplest manner possible, two ideas: 

 First, in pool fishing, to cover all good 

 water carefully; second, always to cast 

 so that the fly would fall in the water 

 nearest to the angler first, one cast 

 succeeding another in such a way that 

 no good unfished water would be dis- 

 turbed. It is a question whether the 

 critic referred to objected to the idea 

 of covering all good water, or to the 

 measure suggested to prevent disturb- 

 ing good unfished water; or possibly 

 he did not grasp the idea of the math- 

 ematical pool at all. The question of 

 the adaptability of the dry-fly to many 

 American streams is beyond argument; 

 for many years it has been used upon 

 them with great success. The editor 

 of the Fishing Gazette, of London, in 

 speaking of the dry-fly on American 



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