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experience is that the dry fly proves killing 

 to the largest fish, and is moreover easier to 

 fish with, as a dace rises at it more visibly, 

 and the angler stands a better chance of 

 striking in time. Sometimes dace may 

 be caught with fly even in mid-winter. A 

 warm, sunny day seems to tempt them to 

 rise. But I have only tried with dry fly 

 then. 



How to use the dry fly, and the various 

 recipes for anointing both fly and reel-line 

 to make them float, are amply set forth in 

 many handbooks which will give the igno- 

 rant and curious full instructions as to how 

 to succeed both with wet and dry fly. For 

 the former method let the novice take note 

 of the advice that he will there find about 

 adding a fragment of kid glove to the tip of 

 his fly. He will find it invaluable. There 

 are such things as gentles, too, but they are 

 unpleasant to handle and they whip off. 

 Finally, in recommending the dace to the 

 notice of fly-fishers, I cannot praise him 

 more highly than by saying that I would 

 as lief fish for him in rivers where he is 

 large and abundant as for the trout of any 

 mountain stream. 



