Practical Dry-Fly Fishing 



ward these flies were taken on several 

 trips, but were unthought of and un- 

 used. One day he met an angler who 

 had used the dry-fly method of fishing 

 and who seemed to be enthusiastic 

 about it. The author made up his 

 mind that he would try the floating 

 fly at the very next opportunity that 

 presented itself. But it must be re- 

 membered that he had been a con- 

 firmed wet fly fisherman for more than 

 thirty years, and while he had ad- 

 vanced in the wet fly art so far as to 

 use only a single small fly, and leaders 

 fully as fine as those made for dry-fly 

 angling, yet when he reached a stream 

 it was natural for him to think of the 

 lures that had been his companions 

 since boyhood and not to attempt to 

 branch out into new fields. 



But one May day, four or five years 

 ago, when on a week's end fishing trip, 

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