And yes it is a pleasure to fish the south England chalk streams such as the Itchen - upstream dry-fly only, in the presence of Izaak Walton's Ghost and the company of dead man's shoes... and smile at the rhetoric that is 'pure-flyfishing'... in it's true historical context...The purists among dry-fly fishermen will not under any circumstances cast except over rising fish, and prefer to remain idle the entire day rather than attempt to persuade the wary inhabitants of the stream to rise at an artificial fly, unless they have previously seen a natural one taken in the same position.
— From Dry-Fly Fishing..., F. M Halford.
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