Practical Dry-Fly Fishing 



books and papers and cannot give you 

 a definite reply to your question." 

 Mr. Marston, in sending to me Mr. 

 Senior's letter, said: "I feel sure it was 

 in Pulman's 'Vade-Mecum,' 1846, that 

 Mr. Senior discovered one of the first 

 references to dry-fly fishing, though in 

 earlier works there have been remarks 

 which make one feel pretty certain it 

 was not an unknown art." 



Feeling sure that all who are inter- 

 ested in the floating fly will find en- 

 tertainment in reading Mr. Pulman's 

 early description of it, I quote from 

 his book at some length: "It is im- 

 possible to give infallible directions for 

 the use of particular flies at every par- 

 ticular time, although we shall else- 

 where do all we consider necessary. 

 Much must be left to the angler's own 

 judgment; but we advise him to be 

 careful of falling into the error of con- 



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