...entirely escapes, because they happen just then to be looking upwards for the materials of their meal. Let a dry fly be substituted for the wet one, the...will be seized as readily as a living insect. This dry fly, we must remark, should be an imitation of the natural fly on which the fish are feeding, because,...

...switched a few times through the air to throw off its superabundant moisture, a judicious cast mado just above the rising fish, and the fly allowed to...that it will be seized as readily as a living insect. Although the foregoing leaves very little undone to be a full des -ri;>tion of dry-fly fishing. I do...

...dry one be substituted for the wet one, the line switched a few times through the air to throw ofi its superabundant moisture, a judicious cast made...of the natural fly on which the fish are feeding.' We come back to the Itchen in the sixties, by which time, if we are to believe old Wykehamists, no...

...superabundant moisture, a judicious cast made just above the rising fish, and the fly allowed to float toward and over them, and the chances are ten to one that...should be an imitation of the natural fly on which the trout are feeding, because if widely different the fish, instead of being allured, would most likely...

...no mention of the dry-fly) is not of very great length. &o I will include it in this brief history : Let a dry fly be substituted for the wet one, the...that it will be seized as readily as a living insect. Although the foregoing leaves very little undone to be a full desi-ription of dry-fly fishing, I do...

...a dry fly be substituted for the wet one, the line switched a few tion«i tbrough the air to tbrow off its superabundant moisture, a judicious cast made...that it will be seized as readily as a living insect. Although the foregoing leaves very little undone to be a full deseription of dry-fly fishing, I do...

...throw off its superabundant moisture, a judicious cast made just above the rising fish, and the Hy allowed to float towards and over them, and the chances...that it will be seized as readily as a living insect. Although the foregoing leaves very little undone to be a full deSc-rip'tion of dry-fly fishing, I do...

...under certain circumstances not the form only but the action also of the natural fly must be imitated. 'Let a dry fly be substituted for the wet one, the...are ten to one that it will be seized as readily as the living insect.' This is the earliest mention I know of the intentional drying of the fly. The remarkable...

...superabundant moisture, a judicious cast made just above the rising fish and the fly allowed to float toward and over them, and the chances are ten to one that it will be seized as readily as the living insect." That sentence could not have been improved upon by Frederic Halford, the historian...