Practical Dry-Fly Fishing 



the sole purpose of showing me a pool 

 full of very anxious trout." Mr. Scott 

 tried many casts, "rested the pool" 

 frequently, and devoted two days to 

 furnishing in this manner amusement 

 to the anglers of the camp, and doubt- 

 less to the fish as well. 4-fter having 

 exhausted the entire stock of flies in 

 his book, the next day he sat on the 

 dam and watched the rising fish to dis- 

 cover what they were feeding on. 

 Soon he saw a trout rise gracefully 

 and swallow an ash-colored midge 

 which had floated down from the dam. 

 "On looking around me," he contin- 

 ued, "I saw a cloud of drab ephemera 

 rather larger than mosquitoes, swarm- 

 ing over the dry timber dam, and ever 

 and anon as one fell on the water, a 

 trout rose very gracefully and swal- 

 lowed it." He soon found in his fly- 

 book an ash-midge, closely resembling 



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