Practical Dry-Fly Fishing 



telligenee to know that .if I wanted 

 this fish badly I should go below the 

 tail of the pool and wade carefully up 

 to the point 0, from whicji I had cast 

 in the morning. But, instead, I con- 

 tented myself by walking down the 

 other side of the pool, at a good dis- 

 tance from the bank, and took a posi- 

 tion at D. There was not a bright sky 

 behind me, the sun had set, daylight 

 was fast disappearing, and I was fully 

 sixty feet from the fish. But when the 

 rod was raised for the first false cast, 

 away went the trout like ft scared cat. 

 This incident shows at what an angle, 

 and at what a distance, e"^en in a fail- 

 ing light, a trout is able to see an angler 

 or his rod. 



Now will be related an example of 

 bad judgment, aided by a penchant 

 possessed by the author at times to do 

 things with the least amount of labor 



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