The Faith of an Eccentric 



and take them fairly, with a wet fly 

 under any known conditions, or on 

 any water where there are trout to 

 take; but we have heard, too, of 

 showers of fish from the clouds." And 

 again this author says: "The man 

 who swears by the sunk fly style 

 under normal conditions on the Test 

 or Itchen" (smooth, placid streams), 

 "is an eccentric." 



And yet the conditions that prove 

 the Waterloo of the wet fly fisherman 

 are frequently those most desired by 

 the user of the floating fly. While often 

 the greatest successes of the sunken fly 

 are obtained in the early spring, before 

 the waters have gone down to their 

 summer conditions, it is seldom that 

 the dry-fly angler is seen upon the 

 streams until the warm -weather has 

 come and the water is naturally low 

 and glass-Uke in its transparency. On 



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