"The Dry Fly and Fast Water," by George M. L. La Branche, 

 both will be found valuable to the angler in showing the 

 adaptability of the dry-fly method to American streams. 

 Both books are published by Charles Scribner's Sons, New 

 York. However, to be just with my readers, it is only 

 right they should know that these two books were issued 

 in 1914, two years before any classified list of Amer- 

 ican trout insects had been made, or my book on American 

 trout stream insects had been published. So that their 

 books exclusively refer to their use of English type dry flies. 

 On page 41, in "Practical Dry Fly Fishing," the author 

 says: "Whether English dry flies tied to resemble English 

 insects, imitate exactly in all points similar insects common 

 to American streams is a mooted question." This mooted 

 question has been settled by the writer who has proved that 

 English dry flies do not resemble in size, color, or form 

 any of the American trout stream insects. Some English 

 insects are similar to American, but there is always a differ- 

 ence in size or color of the artificial flies. 



The strictly consistent rule laid down both by American 

 and British dry fly experts is, whatever dry fly is used, it 

 must exactly imitate the species of insect that trout are then 

 taking as food, or at least the insects visible at the time 

 on the water. If the reader has studied the "charts" in 

 Trout Stream Insects, he will, to a certain extent, know at 

 any time what kind of insects are likely to be rising by the 

 period, temperature and time of day. The writer has prac- 

 tised dry fly fishing more or less for twenty-five years past, 

 but not exclusively his views being too broad to entirely 

 ignore the great advantages -of wet fishing, or even live bait 

 and artificial lures on American streams. 



There is no question whatever that the English dry fly 

 will seduce American trout, especially Fontinalis, fario and 

 irridius, but the same can be said of the old wet style 

 favorites, and the new style nature flies. It is left entirely 

 to the angler's judgment whether he prefers to fish with 

 English dry flies that do not imitate our insects, or remains 

 loyal to the old American favorites which do not imitate 



