with flies or nymphs and your success with them is a personal 

 achievement of real worth. 



To those anglers who are amateur or expert in the art 

 of fly tying I would strongly advise them, study nymphs. 

 Get a few for patterns and tie some for their own use. 

 Nymphs are more easily made, and should they happen 

 to construct several killers the triumph can be enjoyed with 

 keen relish. 



My sole object in introducing this new lure is to furnish 

 the more thoughtful angler with a subject that leads him to 

 angling of a better sort, to follow it up in study of aquatic 

 insects and most interesting study of trout food. The angler 

 who fishes alone for fish has no conception what the real art 

 of angling is or the personal delight the student of nature 

 enjoys. 



Dry fly fishing created quite a rumpus among our anglers 

 several years ago because it was something new, and really 

 an advance in the art of angling. I have met quite a number 

 of anglers on various streams this last few years, and the 

 burden of their talk is mostly: "I fish nothing but the 

 dry fly." "And do you succeed better than by the old wet 

 style?" The answer is usually: "Well, yes, I get bigger 

 fish and certainly have more fun in the game." All these 

 answers correspond exactly with my own experience, though 

 I don't entirely drop wet fishing or even artificial lure fish- 

 ing. The artistic temperament requires a change now and 

 then, especially in so uncertain a pastime as fishing for trout. 



As an example of the uncertainty mentioned, I was fish- 

 ing at the end of this last May with two Brooklyn friends, 

 father and son, in that splendid Beaverkill pool known as 

 "Buck Eddy." While we were preparing to fish there came 

 down a splendid rise of march browns, and the pool for 

 fifty yards was soon a boiling mass of trout. The young 

 fellow was so excited as to exclaim: "I'll bet there are five 

 hundred fish jumping." There certainly were at least sev- 

 enty trout from ten to eighteen inches long. 



Unfortunately I was that day fishing exclusively arti- 

 ficial lures, and for the entire half hour of the rise I only 



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