Practical Dry-Fly Fishing 



streams alone and — at least learn new 

 things about this delightful art. 



The incidents related have not been 

 written so much with the idea of en- 

 tertaining the reader, as with the hope 

 that they will point a moral to the be- 

 ginner with the dry-fly, with the re- 

 sult that he will start in at once to 

 master dry-fly fishing instead of drift- 

 ing along aimlessly until a chance hap- 

 pening compels him to realize the de- 

 sirability of becoming a skilful dry-fly 

 angler. 



At first, if an angler has been a wet 

 fly fisherman all his life, the dry-fly 

 and the methods of its use may seem 

 somewhat strange to him when he 

 takes them up; in other words, he is 

 apt to lack that confidence in himself 

 and the dry-fly that he has when cast- 

 ing the wet fly, to the handhng of 

 which he has become thoroughly ac- 



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