Dry Fly and Fast Water

by George Michel Lucien La Branche

The Dry Fly and Fast Water was written to fill a need created by the coming of the brown trout to America. The British flies and methods that followed it over here proved inapplicable. Therefore, it remained for fishing expert George La Branche to promulgate a new, distinctly American school of dry-fly angling. The proof of its validity is that today it is still widely practiced here. This remains one of the great classics of American fishing literature, covering everything from wonderfuldescriptions of fish behavior to details of the insects they feed on and the artificial flies that imitate those foods.

226 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2000

Reviews

[Laura Snyder · Rating 3 out of 5]

A solid early treatment of the Noble art of the dry fly method of fishing....the book was written at the encouragement of the author's friends due to his mastery of this method. The method is an art and a science, with a specific underlying theme that the angler must thoughtfully consider and study fish , insect and stream "behavior."