Practical Dry-Fly Fishing 



telligence to know that if I wanted 

 this fish badly I should go below the 

 tail of the pool and wade carefully up 

 to the point 0, from which I had cast 

 in the morning. But, instead, I con- 

 tented myself by walking down the 

 other side of the pool, at a good dis- 

 tance from the bank, and took a posi- 

 tion at D. There was not a bright sky 

 behind me, the sun had set, daylight 

 was fast disappearing, and I was fully 

 sixty feet from the fish. But when the 

 rod was raised for the first false cast, 

 away went the trout like a scared cat. 

 This incident shows at what an angle, 

 and at what a distance, even in a fail- 

 ing light, a trout is able to see an angler 

 or his rod. 



Now will be related an example of 

 bad judgment, aided by a penchant 

 possessed by the author at times to do 

 things with the least amount of labor 



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