Practical Dry-Fly Fishing 



have for many years fished with hardly 

 any other flies than the red palmer and 

 some shades of the duns, lighter or 

 darker, larger or smaller, according to 

 the particular states of the water and 

 atmosphere, and the result is, our full 

 concurrence in the remark of Mr. Ron- 

 alds, that 'the duns form the sheet- 

 anchor of the fly-fisher's practice." 



As Mr. Frederic M. Halford has 

 been referred to frequently as the 

 greatest of writers on the dry-fly, a 

 subject so fascinating to an angler, a 

 list of his books, in the order in which 

 they appeared, is given: "Floating 

 Flies and How to Dress Them," 1886; 

 "Dry-Fly Fishing in Theory and Prac- 

 tice," 1889; "Making a Fishery," 1895; 

 "Dry-Fly Entomology," 1897; "An 

 Angler's Autobiography," 1903; "The 

 Modern Development of the Dry-Fly," 

 1910. Another book is now on the 

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