Practical Dry-Fly Fishing 



to American anglers, as at present we 

 have no fly-fisher's entomology of our 

 own, and, as has been stated, there 

 seems to be no doubt that many species 

 of duns are common to both English 

 and American streams. The entomo- 

 logical experiences of the author have 

 no scientific value, but, in the spring of 

 1911, in a few days he examined ap- 

 proximately two hundred insects of the 

 ephemeridae family caught upon Amer- 

 ican waters. Unfortunately, he had no 

 English entomology with him; but so 

 far as he could carry in his mind the 

 color and forms of the insects shown in 

 British plates, the ephemeridse exam- 

 ined seemed in no way different from 

 those hatched in English streams. 



As time has gone on it has become 

 customary for expert angler-entomolo- 

 gists to reduce the number of patterns 

 of floating flies considered necessary in 



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