Practical Dry-Fly Fishing

This antiquarian volume contains a practical guide to dry-fly fishing, especially written to fill the gap created by the absence of American dry-fly fishing literature. Written in simple, clear language and full of interesting information and practical hints and tips, this book, although old, will be of utility to novice dry-fly fishers, and will be of considerable value to collectors of antiquarian literature of this ilk. The chapters of this book include: English Dry-Fly Methods Modified by American Ideas and Conditions; Fishing the Rise and Fishing the Stream, and a Word About the English Purist; Largely Statistical, Describing Rods, Lines, Leaders, Flies, and Other Tackle; Showing That Americans May Use the Dry-Fly, Though There Is No American Fly-Fishers Entomology, et cetera. This text is being republished now complete with a new introduction on the history of fishing.