CHAPTER I 



A THEORY l 



THAT a trout or any other fish could 

 possibly mistake a wet fly used in the 

 regular wet fly way for the natural fly of 

 which it is supposed to be an imitation, 

 was always to my mind a very doubtful 

 question ; but now it is so no longer. I 

 am sure the fish takes it for something 

 else. 



If we consider what would happen to a 

 natural fly which had by some mishap be- 

 come submerged, we can come to no other 

 conclusion than that it would be carried 

 along by the current, without any power 

 of its own of altering the direction in 

 which it was being moved by the water. 



1 Rewritten from an article in The Field under the 

 heading of " An Unorthodox View of Wet Fly Fishing." 



