INTRODUCTION 



No excuses or apologies are necessary 

 for offering to American anglers a little 

 treatise, worthy perhaps of a not more 

 dignified name than "hand-book," on 

 dry-fly fishing. It may be said that 

 the subject has been fully covered by 

 a number of expert writers who have 

 lived in the home of the dry-fly, Eng- 

 land, and who have spent many years 

 of their Uves in practising this most 

 delicate, artistic and fascinating of 

 sports on the English chalk streams, 

 so smooth, so placid, and fished so long 

 and so constantly that to take from 

 them successfully their highly "edu- 

 cated" trout more scientific methods 

 than those offered by the use of the wet 



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