of the rod, and the finer tackle used makes it imperative 

 you play the fish with the utmost caution and skill. 



On the other hand fishing wet has none of these finer 

 qualities, nor is your interest aroused to such a degree in 

 method or style. Wet fishing with several nondescript flies 

 in mid or bottom water is just a chance game till the fish 

 takes the fly. Very interesting, but it can be made doubly 

 so, and should be improved by the adoption of several things 

 such as the tapered line and leader; snells tied to leaders 

 by a knot instead of loops; by the use of flies copied from 

 natural insects. 



Wet fishing has too many advantages to ignore it en- 

 tirely, particularly in deep swift water, where the fario and 

 irridius always attain their greatest size invariably to 

 haunt the deep pools utterly oblivious to the dry fly, rising 

 to insects at rare intervals. Wet fishing down stream in 

 shallow rapids has fruitful results, covering as you can with 

 a long line the entire stream and both banks on wet or 

 windy days. The best results attained in wet fishing are 

 when you move a cast of flies rapidly through a runway, or 

 permit it to travel along the water flow near the surface of 

 the runway. The controversy has not been settled, many wet 

 fishermen claim the wet method capture the most fish. But 

 the capture of fish is of minor importance. The true sports- 

 man angles for pleasure in the game, and he certainly gets 

 more in the higher art of fishing with a dry fly. 



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