A Veteran Learns a Lesson 



the fall of a dam on the Willowemoc, 

 at a low stage of water none running 

 over. The fish were shy and refused 

 every fly I offered them, when my 

 friend put on a grannom for a stretcher 

 and a Jenny spinner for a dropper. 

 His leader was of the finest gut and 

 his flies fresh, and by cracking the 

 moisture from them between each 

 throw, he would lay them so lightly 

 on the glassy surface that a brace of 

 trout would take them at almost every 

 cast and before they sank or were 

 drawn away. He had tied these flies 

 and made his whip especially for his 

 evening cast on this pool, and as the 

 fish would not notice mine I was 

 obliged to content myself with land- 

 ing his fish, which in a half hour 

 counted several dozen. Here was an 

 exemplification of the advantage of 

 keeping one's flies dry." 



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