Practical Dry-Fly Fishing 



Mr. Genio C. Scott, another one 

 of the best-known American angling 

 writers of his day, relates an incident 

 in his "Fishing in American Waters" 

 (1869), that seems to show that a 

 knowledge of our present day dry-fly 

 methods would have been almost as 

 valuable to him in fishing wilderness 

 waters as it has been claimed by the 

 author to be when used to-day on our 

 much-fished streams. He was at the 

 celebrated Middle Dam Camp, at the 

 foot of Mollychunkemunk Lake, Me. 

 He says: "It is here that I met a new 

 experience in the character of trout, 

 and think it worth relating for the 

 benefit of anglers. While I believe 

 that trout are not generally so discrim- 

 inating in the selection of artificial flies 

 as to evince acuteness of vision, yet I 

 have experienced that at certain waters, 

 when the streams are low and clear, a 



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