Practical Dry-Fly Fishing 



of a natural insect, apparently did not 

 pursue the subject further than the in- 

 cidental mention, as quoted above, of 

 this method of angling? 



For many years a comparatively 

 small number of enthusiastic American 

 anglers have fished certain well-known 

 Eastern streams with the dry-fly. For 

 several seasons it has been the favor- 

 ite lure, in the fall, of ouananiche an- 

 glers on some of the Maine streams. A 

 few of the devotees of the floating fly 

 have become so fascinated by dry-fly 

 methods that they will use no other 

 lure in fishing for trout. Their suc- 

 cess has been so great in taking trout 

 in summer from some of the low, clear 

 streams of New York, that others fre- 

 quenting these waters have eagerly 

 adopted their method. But at pres- 

 ent it cannot be said that the use of 

 the dry-fly has become at all general 



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