DRY-FLY ON LOCHS AND LAKES 159 



when touring with lady members of my family, I 

 have steadily refrained from carrying fishing gear or 

 trying to fish, because unless the ladies are themselves 

 ardent votaries of the fly rod, the pursuit of angling 

 by their male escorts is likely to mar their pleasure in 

 the trip. 



At the same time, I have ever felt that this pur- 

 suit of dry-fly on lakes and other comparatively 

 stagnant waters should be a charming variety and be 

 full of interest for the enthusiast. When working out 

 the scheme of this book, Mr. Martin E. Mosely at once 

 suggested a chapter on this branch of the subject, but 

 the difficulty was that my own personal experience 

 was not sufficient to warrant my trying to hammer 

 my opinions down the throats of my readers. The 

 desirability of including this mode of dry-fly fishing 

 in a book pretending to be a complete manual was so 

 self-evident that I determined to try to enlist the 

 sympathies of dry-fly men who could write on the 

 question with some degree of authority. 



After a little consideration I addressed myself to 

 three friends, each of whom possessed the necessary 

 experience of dry-fly on lakes or lochs. The result 

 of the disinterested and sportsmanlike manner in 

 which my good friends met my suggestion is that 

 I am able to give any dry-fly men who wish to try 

 their hands at this form of fly fishing valuable hints 

 and a mass of well-digested maxims derived from 

 long experience. Each of my three friends is a past- 

 master in the art of dry-fly work on lakes or lochs 



