DRY-FLY FISHING 



Recently I carefully fished a ledgy pool where I 

 had seen twenty-five fish the evening before, get- 

 ting only one rise at the tail of the pool and miss- 

 ing him. After two hours' hard work we drifted 

 over the pool and there was only one fish in it, at 

 the tail; the rest had moved on in the night. 

 Sometimes the current makes past a jutting point 

 of rock behind the comer of which is a sure place 

 for a salmon, if there is one in the pool. Such a 

 place is always worth trying without looking, be- 

 cause if scared from there the fish may not re- 

 turn for some time, and if he is there, he is almost 

 sure to rise in such a place. 



Along ledges is a favorite place for dry-fly work 

 because the fish are sure to lie in certain positions if 

 there and the fly can be easily made to pass right 

 over them. But it is at the tail of the pool that 

 I love most to see them or in places where spring 

 water comes in, because they are in plain sight and 

 I can generally place myself in such a position that 

 I can see them without alarming them at all. 

 Very often I can get within thirty or forty feet of 

 them and witness the whole performance. It 

 happened often that both Mr. La Branche and I 

 found it possible to take the larger number of fish 

 in such a bunch; Mr. La Branche on one occasion 



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