entirely to the angler himself what his previous choice in 

 the tackle shop should be, either of Halford's English flies, 

 or Rhead's American nature flies. The charts in "Trout 

 Stream Insects" give a list of the most abundant insects that 

 appear for each month of the season. There are many 

 other species not mentioned in the chart which are almost 

 the same. Should you find no drakes or upwing insects float- 

 ing on the surface and that a greater number of duns or 

 lapwing insects are on the wing, you can fish dry with a 

 dun fly like the natural insect you see, or fish the duns wet 

 with two or more flies, till later on when you see drakes 

 floating, then fish with dry fly imitations. The beginner 

 at first has to be under the guidance of tackle shop advice, 

 which is rarely good, with one notable exception, that is, 

 Wm. Mills & Son, who have several members of the firm 

 practical anglers of experience and talented fly tyers. 



It is quite different with the wet angler of experience. 

 He is familiar with at least the old American favorites, 

 and is well able to select a good stock of dry flies to start 

 with in practising the newer method. 



DRY FLY METHODS CASTING 



The principal theory of dry fly angling is simply that of 

 delicately casting an artificial fly to the surface so that it 

 will float along with wings erect, or "cocked," over a rising 

 trout, or in places where trout are supposed to lie. As trout 

 almost invariably choose to lie underneath swift water, 

 generally a few feet below large rocks where the water flow 

 is curbed, the rule is to cast up stream against the flow 

 of water about three feet above the fish, permitting the fly 

 to float without drag or ripple over the fish, to then lift the 

 fly up from the water without wetting it. In a long, deep 

 placid pool, trout lie with head up stream and they should 

 always be fished up from tail end of pool. There is abso- 

 lutely nothing for the expert wet fisherman to learn in cast- 

 ing the dry fly if supplied with proper tools for it. It is 

 merely a change of method. The first difference is that 

 the wet fisherman has two or more flies on the leader, the 



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