Practical Dry-Fly Fishing 



at the right in Fig. 11. I happened to 

 be in fine form that day, and from early 

 morning my nerves had seemed to be 

 at just the right tension to enable me 

 to place the fly accurately and deli- 

 cately, while in difficult places I had 

 been fortunate enough to make many 

 skilful casts that had done away al- 

 most completely with that bane of all 

 dry-fly anglers, the drag. The water 

 was so deep at the lower end of the 

 pool and up to within a few feet of 

 the left bank, that in the various posi- 

 tions indicated by I had entered the 

 pool as far as the length of my waders 

 would allow me to go, while before 

 reaching these positions I had fished 

 thoroughly other portions of the pool 

 below; yet I regarded that portion of 

 the pool indicated in a general way by 

 C, C, C, C, as the very cream of the 

 water. The casts were unusually long, 



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