Besides being an effective method of adding heft to one's basket dry fly fishing has many charms. The dry fly man fishes alone and while he loses in sociability he more than gains in the intimate contact he establishes with nature at her best. As he goes slowly and quietly up stream plying his art he sees many wonderful sights and hears many sounds that are denied the folks who would rather catch dollars than fish; who prefer man-made towns to the peaceful quiet of the streamside.