74 THE DRY-FLY MAN'S HANDBOOK 



On some fisheries attempts have been made to 

 frame regulations which preclude this form of wet- 

 fly fishing, and such rules as : " No salmon or silver- 

 bodied flies allowed," or simply " Dry-fly fishing only 

 allowed," are printed on the members' and friends' 

 tickets of some such clubs and subscription waters, 

 and no doubt these are salutary laws in such cases. 



On a length of water preserved by the lessee or 

 owner for his own and his friends' sport, it is felt that 

 the publication of these and similar regulations on 

 the permit is almost an insult to the character of a 

 guest invited to share as a sportsman in the pleasure 

 of dry-fly fishing. Guests, too, should bear in mind 

 that the very heavy rents paid for water, the great 

 expense of stocking, weed-cutting, and -other matters 

 required to maintain the character of a first-rate 

 chalk-stream fishery are based on the esteem in 

 which anything like good dry-fly fishing is held at 

 the present time. Mile for mile wet-fly -fishing is 

 not worth a quarter of the sum paid on the Hamp- 

 shire streams, and nothing more surely tends to 

 develop further the increasing shyness of the fish 

 than the presence of a few persistent downstream 

 fishers with the sunk fly. 



The advocate of the winged fly, nymph, or pupa 



fished under water will pos- 



Wet-fly fished upstream sibly not be impressed by the 



on dry-fly waters. last few paragraphs. He may 



skip them, or if he takes the 

 trouble to read them may remark that as he almost 



