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Excerpt from An Amateur Angler's Days in Dove Dale: Or How I Spent My Three Weeks Holiday, July 24-Aug, 14 Before I had thrown a dozen times, a man in velveteens turned up, and asked for my license; having satisfied him, and rewarded him besides for his kindness in demanding my passport to The Dove, he asked to see my flies. He pronounced them splendid - deadly; with such flies I may be sure of getting back to The Izaak Walton 'with a fine dish for dinner. Thus encouraged I started afresh, and not forgetting the injunction of my piscatorial Cromwell to keep my flies dry - wet fly fishing being exploded - I began to thrash The Dove. How to keep your flies dry in a torrent of rain, and whilst throwing on the water, was a problem which puzzled me a good deal. The way to do it, I was told, was to swing the line backwards and forwards constantly, and then to drop your fly gently on the top of the water, and let him sail quietly down, looking as like nature as possible. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.