Meeker and I head over in the early afternoon and hit the White's winking riffles and the deep green pools with nymphs, streamers and dry flies.

FORBES: Adventurer

When in 1676 Robert Cotton, the younger man whom Walton treated as an adopted son, joined his own work to Walton's, creating "Walton and Cotton's Angler, " he brought to the partnership the use of angling with dry flies.

WSJ: It Has Hooked Generations of Fishermen | Izaak Walton | The Compleat Angler | By H. George Fletcher