Dry-Fly Fishing

Excerpt from Dry-Fly Fishing

Another book on the dry-fly should perhaps be accompanied by an apology, so many
anglers having already written in praise of the most seductive lure that can be offered to a trout; but I have been so frequently asked to produce an elementary work on the fascinating subject that I have at last consented.

Those who have been fishing the floating fly for many years may be surprised to learn how much misconception exists regarding their favourite method. It is still looked upon in many quarters as something mysterious, something demanding superlative skill and even erudition, something applicable only to certain waters; whereas the fact is that it is as simple as it is deadly, and more generally useful than any other.

My chief purpose is to make known the virtues of the dry-fly to Scottish anglers and others, whose great privilege it is to fish streams of cheerful flow; to show them how they may take trout with the fly both from the sparkling currents and the placid pools, not only in spring, but also in the height of summer, not under cover of darkness, but in the happier sunlight.

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