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A HANDY GUIDE TO 
EXERCISE XI. 
“/ GO A-FISHING BUT NOT DRIVING TANDEM. 
After careful, persevering practice of the above 
exercises, you may now begin really to fish with 
the dry fly. 
Do not put on more than one fly. You will have, 
of course, to take care that it is the right one, though 
direction as to flies for various seasons and parts 
of the day and different waters, hardly falls within 
the province of this Guide, which is restricted to the 
art of plying them. Such guidance is easily pro- 
curable elsewhere. 
On lakes or broad, smooth streams a dropper may 
be used, or even two, and you can fish dry. In wet- 
fly fishing you may put on half a dozen, if you like, of 
every size from a moth to a midge, but in dry-fly fishing 
one is best. In narrow streams, or in streams with 
many bends and divers currents, even one dropper 
will cause the tail-fly to drag, and the tail-fly to 
drag the dropper, and one or both may be drowned. 
Therefore my strong advice to the dry-fly fisherman 
is — Never drive tandem, except on a wide, straight 
road. The leader and wheeler will rarely go well 
together. And if the wheeler stumble on a weed, 
the leader will be sure to twist round to look at him, 
