Practical Dry-Fly Fishing 



the angler, after a few casts, finds the 

 fish over which he throws unwilling to 

 be tempted, pass on in search of a 

 more willing victim. This caution is 

 the more necessary, because anglers 

 too often expect to take every rising 

 fish over which they throw; whereas 

 it is really only under particular cir- 

 cumstances, and in favorable situa- 

 tions, that the motions of the natural 

 insect can be so imitated as to prove 

 successful, unless the fish are raven- 

 ous and seize everything presented to 

 them a state of things not often ex- 

 perienced. 



" There is much common sense in 

 the following remarks by a writer in 

 the Sporting Review: 'A fish, as may 

 be witnessed from a bank, when on 

 the feed, lies with his nose peering 

 over a shore or ledge of rock, and 

 pointed up the stream, ready to take 



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