CHAPTER X 



Wilderness Fishing Different from 

 Talcing "Educated " Trout from 

 Much-Fished Streams 



INSTRUCTIONS for angling with 

 the dry-fly often seem to present 

 to the beginner difficulties that 

 might have a tendency to discourage 

 him. Yet the proper handling of the 

 floating fly is practically as easy as the 

 skilful management of the sunken fly, 

 and an expert wet fly fisherman should 

 have no difficulty in becoming profi- 

 cient as a dry-fly angler in a compara- 

 tively short time. In the London 

 Field a well-known angling writer has 

 said recently: "StartUng as the state- 

 ment may sound, it is probably true 

 that the really good wet fly fisherman 

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