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may I think. be found in the fact that in the rough, broken 
water which constitutes the greater portion’ of these rivers, 
the life-like and attractive movement of the hackle fibres 
proves more seductive to the fish than a sunken winged fly 
would do. On the more sluggish southern streams, a sys- 
tem which is styled “dry flyfishing” is greatly practised, 
and on several occasions on the Yorkshire rivers I have 
taken a good dish of trout by resorting to this plan, when 
I should otherwise have met with very poor success; the 
flies most suitable for this style of fishing are the up-winged 
duns, such as the “ Little Iron Blue,” ‘‘ Olive Bloa,” “ Pale 
Blue Dun,” “ Quill Guat,” etc., etc. ; the cast must be com- 
posed of the very finest drawn gut or single horse hair, and 
one fly only attached to the end of it; wading carefully 
up stream, the angler watches for the indications of a rising 
fish on the smooth gliding water at the head of a stream, 
and carefully measuring the distance with his eye, delivers 
his single fly lightly about a couple of feet above his inten- 
ded victim, very seldom has the cast to be repeated, if 
your pattern is a correct imitation of the fly upon the water, 
whereas it is almost any odds against a sunken hackled 
fly being taken under similar circumstances. The late 
David Foster, of Ashbourne, was, I believe, the first to 
originate the plan of dressing flies similar to the above 
named with wings, which would retain an almost upright 
position when wet or subjected to heavy usage, and his 
method, as explained in his eminently practical work, The 
Scientific Angler, is as follows, he says :—“ Let us suppose 
for the time being that the intending operator has already 
fashioned the body of the fly, and has in readiness the 
material for its remaining component parts, viz., the legs 
and wings ; now instead of next placing the legs and lastly 
the wings, he must reverse the operation by attaching the 
wings first, the addition of the legs completing the process. 
The feather should also be ample in dimensions, 
