Practical Dry-Fly Fishing 



making thorough and systematic study 

 of the best possible position in each and 

 every case would prove himself in the 

 long run to be a fly-fisherman of a rare 

 and superior type. In stream tactics 

 what can be of more importance than 

 the study of position? And yet how 

 many times during the course of a 

 day's fishing is even a fairly experi- 

 enced angler or his shadow, or his rod 

 or its shadow, plainly seen by the trout 

 when he flatters himself that the fish 

 is in complete ignorance of his pres- 

 ence? Or how often is an angler, even 

 though his presence be unknown to the 

 fish, in the very best possible position 

 — the position that we have referred to 

 as "the point of vantage"? It is plain 

 that this point is the one spot where 

 the angler is as near the trout as it is 

 possible to be without cqming within 

 range of its keen sight. 



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