The Dry-Fly Winning Its Way 



in America. No longer ago than the 

 spring of 1911, one of the largest New 

 York dealers in fishing tackle one of 

 the few who have carried a stock 

 of floating flies for a number of years 

 told the author that in his opin- 

 ion there were not more than one 

 hundred real dry-fly fishermen in the 

 United States. During the past year, 

 however, interest in this method of an- 

 gling has been increasing rapidly, and 

 the dry-fly bids fair to occupy as im- 

 portant a place in America as it now 

 occupies in England. Heretofore it 

 has not fought for recognition; it 

 has been almost totally neglected by 

 American angling writers, and has been 

 lightly tossed aside by many anglers as 

 an English fad. As it becomes better 

 known the beauties of its methods can- 

 not help appealing to expert fly-fisher- 

 men and winning a way to their hearts. 



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