Practical Dry-Fly Fishing 



great numbers of the largest fish on 

 days when the natives with wet fly 

 could do no good at all. At length 

 his proceedings were quietly but thor- 

 oughly watched by one of the local 

 talent, with the result that he who 

 went to discover a fraud found that he 

 had been for years following a mistaken 

 policy. . . . Ever after he forswore 

 the wet fly, and himself was able in 

 turn to teach and convert others to the 

 more modern and more successful 

 school of angling. From north and 

 south, from east and west, in later times 

 fly -fishermen came to Winchester, where 

 they saw, learned and conqjiered the use 

 of the floating fly . . . they carried the 

 information all over the country, until 

 at length the spread of dry-fly fishing 

 has become something dreadful to con- 

 template, because in the rivers where 

 it is practised the fish never get a rest, 



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