Practical dry-fly fishing . ock [149] Practical Dry-Fly Fishing at the right in Fig. 11. I happened tobe in fine form that day, and from earlymorning my nerves had seemed to beat just the right tension to enable meto place the fly accurately and deli-cately, while in difficult places I hadbeen fortunate enough to make manyskilful casts that had dope away al-most completely with that bane of alldry-fly anglers, the drag. The waterwas so deep at the lower end of thepool and up to within a few feet ofthe left bank, that in the various posi-tions indicated by 0 I had entered thepool as far as the
Practical dry-fly fishing . ock [149] Practical Dry-Fly Fishing at the right in Fig. 11. I happened tobe in fine form that day, and from earlymorning my nerves had seemed to beat just the right tension to enable meto place the fly accurately and deli-cately, while in difficult places I hadbeen fortunate enough to make manyskilful casts that had dope away al-most completely with that bane of alldry-fly anglers, the drag. The waterwas so deep at the lower end of thepool and up to within a few feet ofthe left bank, that in the various posi-tions indicated by 0 I had entered thepool as far as the length of my waderswould allow me to go, while beforereaching these positions I had fishedthoroughly other portions of the poolbelow; yet I regarded that portion ofthe pool indicated in a general way byC, C, C, C, as the very Cream of thewater. The casts were umisually long, [150] Good Casting—Poor Fishing but nearly always tlie fly performed ad-mirably; as an exhibition of casting Icould not find much room for criticism,. Fig. 11 but I now look back upon it as a poorexhibition of fishing. Soon another angler appeared, and,much to my surprise, told me that it[151] Practical Dry-Fly Fishing was useless to waste time on thispool, as trout were never caughtthere. Wet fly fishermen often say thisof good pools. However, I did not believe him, andthe whirling dun continued floatingdown most enticingly. Then another angler came along, and,stopping to tell me the same thing, hur-ried up-stream. Some time afterward, completelybaflled, I followed in the steps of theothers, and left this most promisinglooking pool a sadder but not a wiserman. Not a sign of good fish had Iseen. There were tall trees behind me,and heavy clouds in the sky, and bothweather and water conditions weresuch that it did not once occur to methat I or my rod might possibly havebeen seen by fish feeding* by the op-posite bank. Nor did a realization, or [1521 Help in Solving a Problem even a suspicion, of this come t
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