Practical Dry-Fly Fishing 



that if there was a twelve-inch fish at 

 B, there might be a bettel" one at the 

 head of the pool, and it was advisable 

 to "play" the fish hooked as far away 

 from the upper part of the pool as pos- 

 sible. One side of the rock indicated 

 by the letter N sloped gradually down 

 to the surface of the stream. The fly 

 was next cast upon the shelving side 

 of this rock and allowed to sUde down- 

 ward until it fell from the rock to 

 the surface of the water, lighting most 

 gently, and with exactly the same ac- 

 tion that a natural insect would have 

 had in similar circumstances. As soon 

 as it touched the surface of the stream 

 at C, a brown trout of fourteen inches 

 took the fly with a rush. The net re- 

 sults of a few minutes' fishing in this 

 Uttle pool were two trout landed and 

 one missed. 



It is perhaps unnecessary to add 



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