A Plea for Sportsmanship 



to overcome what may appear to him 

 to be difficulties in the way of becom- 

 ing an accomplished dry-fly fisherman. 

 The author is intensely interested in 

 seeing the use of the dry-fly spread in 

 America for several reasons, of which 

 the principal one is, perhaps, that it 

 will give a greatly added pleasure to 

 our anglers. It is a delicate and artis- 

 tic method of taking trout, and I have 

 found almost without exception that 

 dry-fly experts have such a great love 

 of the game, that a heavy creel at the 

 end of the day is not the principal de- 

 sideratum. In these days of depleted 

 streams it is most necessary that the 

 doctrine should be spread broadcast 

 that the one pleasure of trout fishing, 

 apart from the joy of being close to 

 nature, is the matching of one's wits 

 against the cunning of the trout. He 

 alone deserves the title of sportsman 



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