Practical Dry-Fly Fishing 



above and behind it. In discussing 

 these questions, however, the laws of 

 refraction would have to be gone into 

 far beyond the limits of this work. 

 When the surface of the water is nat- 

 urally rough, or is ruffled by a breeze, 

 the angler need not concern himself so 

 much about keeping out of sight; when 

 behind the fish under theSe conditions 

 a short line may be used, and the "fine 

 and far off" casting be left for the still, 

 clear pools with glassy surface. 



What a never-ending study does this 

 question of exact position — ^the one 

 point of vantage — under ever-varying 

 conditions, offer to the thoughtful dry- 

 fly angler! 



This thought has become insepar- 

 ably connected in my mind with many 

 angling failures of the past — days of 

 disappointment because at times splen- 

 did pools had failed to produce antici- 



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