Practical Dry-Fly Fishing 



words, the fly simply floats on the sur- 

 face of the water; and so his artificial 

 lures came to be known as dry-flies or 

 floating flies. 



And from this comes the whole the- 

 ory of dry-fly fishing, as described 

 briefly at the beginning of this chapter: 

 The exact imitation, and the fly that 

 floats down-stream with a natural mo- 

 tion. If any movement is given to the 

 fly, other than that imparted by the 

 current, the dry-fly angler's theory is 

 that the trout will look upon it as an 

 entirely unnatural proceeding, some- 

 thing that it has discovered that live 

 flies will not do, and that therefore the 

 lure will have no attraction whatever 

 for the fish. 



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