62 THE PARTS or RIVERS ONE SHOULD FISH. 



only way, generally speaking, effectively adapted 

 to straight- ahead fishing. Angling straight before 

 you from the head of a pool, unless, indeed, it be 

 a very long one, will enable you to work your 

 fly from bottom to top, and to begin w^orking it 

 from the very moment it drops into the water. 

 Such is not the case when you are obliged to cast 

 obliquely across the water. Your fly must then 

 be brought towards you, and a good deal of the 

 river is lost before you can bring your fly round 

 into the current, and work it efficiently and at- 

 tractively against the stream. 



The Parts of Rivers that should be 

 FISHED. — The most experienced salmon-fisher in 

 the world will find a difficulty in choosing what 

 are called " the best casts," on his fishing for the 

 first time any river. The most likely-looking 

 spots are frequently without fish from some cause 

 he cannot of himself know, but which is known 

 in the vicinity. Something unknown to him may 

 have happened to disarrange the best-looking 

 pool, and drive away the salmon from it. Its 

 bottom may have been disturbed by a flood 

 sweeping it away, or by adding to it in the shape 

 of fresh gravel or other accumulations. I saw, 

 on the Shin, a certain portion of a good pool 

 destroyed by the formation into it of a little jetty, 



