TROUT HABITS; LURES AND USE 



to combat it is to get directly below the spot 

 where you want to cast and to cast straight 

 upstream into the wind, or to lay the line di- 

 rectly downstream "drifting" it so that the 

 fly will keep ahead of the line. In casting across, 

 a drag may be partially ameliorated by paying 

 out some slack line so soon as the fly has dropped. 



Especially in dry-fly fishing there is every 

 advantage in keeping the rod-point high at the 

 end of the forward-cast 



The fly thrown well up into the air drops 

 altogether by gravity, and thus the fatal error 

 of slapping it down on the water is wholly 

 obviated; 



There is more speed, hence certainty, in 

 striking the fish; 



In casting directly downstream, the lowering 

 of the rod after the fly has alighted permits the 

 fly to remain longer on the water before being 

 pulled under by the current. 



Angling does not differ from other things in 

 life in that there is always something more to 

 be learned in connection therewith. It would 

 seem to be an anomaly to dry-fly fish in the rain; 

 yet the writer has had the experience, late in 

 the season, of fishing the sunken fly unsuccess- 

 fully under this condition, while an experienced 

 local fisherman alongside of him killed trout 

 after trout on the floating fly. When "Pop" 

 Yorks' eye meets this reference he doubtless will 

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