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in July, igo8, I had two and a half brace in less 

 than an hour with a wet double Tup's Indis- 

 pensable out of it. 



OF THE WET FLY IN POOLS, BAYS, AND EDDIES. 



There is probably no problem which has filled 

 the souls of so many dry-fly anglers with the 

 despair attending defeat as that presented by a 

 day when a cross-stream wind, whether up and 

 across, down and across, or straight across, drives 

 every dun under the opposite bank, and into little 

 pools and eddies between the prominences on 

 that bank, and so out of the line of the current 

 which would otherwise carry them along. Then 

 every big trout in the river seems to shift out of 

 the current and into the sheltered bay or eddy, 

 and there he sets to work collecting with busy neb 

 the little argosies which have lost their tide, and 

 are drifting helpless on slack water. It seems so 

 easy to drop the fly in the right place. So it is, 

 but if, as is many times more than probable, your 

 cruiser is away a foot or two, or is deliberate in 

 his movements, and does not take the fly at once, 

 your drag has made itself painfully evident, and 

 your fish is down for half an hour. No, on those 

 occasions the only chance with the dry fly is to 

 hit your fish with it on the tip of the nose at a 

 moment when few naturals are about. Then he 

 may snap it — but what a number of chances 

 against its so falling ! 



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