Practical Dry-Fly Fishing 



without previous practice cannot go 

 upon a stream for one day, and meet- 

 ing with no success rightfully condemn 

 the dry-fly, as has been done the past 

 year by several friends and acquaint- 

 ances of the author. How many 

 times have not one but many anglers 

 spent an entire week fishing with wet 

 flies on some well-known trout stream, 

 without taking altogether more than a 

 few small fish? My advice to the be- 

 ginner with the dry-fly is to go ahead 

 and make a success of it, without being 

 discouraged by real or fancied ob- 

 stacles. The first rise to the imita- 

 tion insect, as it floats down the stream 

 in plain sight of the angler, will give 

 the beginner a thrill he has seldom had 

 when he has felt the tug of a trout 

 taking the sunken fly. The dry-fly 

 game is worth while, and no one should 

 hesitate to make any efforts necessary 



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