Practical Dry-Fly Fishing 



several varieties of flies, at other times 

 greedily taken by the fish, may have 

 been on the water at the time this 

 fish was feeding? Does this selection 

 on the part of the trout indicate that it 

 must necessarily be an entomologist? 



While in wet fly fishing it is possible 

 and even probable that frequently the 

 trout takes a lure resembling in no way 

 any living creature, so far as man can 

 judge, simply because it looks as if it 

 possibly might be something good to 

 eat, yet there seems to be every reason 

 to believe that the trout takes the dry- 

 fly floating upon the surface of the 

 water for a winged insect, and for 

 nothing else. Therefore, dry-fly an- 

 gling may be said to be based upon the 

 imitation theory. It is true that while 

 the hands of the most skilful of fly- 

 tiers cannot fashion of the materials at 

 his command an exact imitation of a 



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