118 MOTHS. 



Though, as I before said, I love not night- 

 fishing, I have sometimes dibbed successfully 

 with the smaller of the Moths delineated in 

 Plate VI., at any part of the day, especially 

 where bushes prevailed. For this purpose it is 

 a good bait, the hook being large, and so much 

 feather about it well disguising it. A tolerably 

 large hook is an advantage in this mode of 

 angling, for you will be commonly obliged to 

 hoist out the fish in a very unceremonious 

 fashion ; and having it well covered with 

 feathers is an advantage too, for under bushes 

 tlie trout comes up so leisurely at the fly, that 

 he has more time for observation than when 

 lying in the stream. In swift running water 

 he rises with great rapidity, seemingly conscious 

 that, unless he do so, the insect will have 

 escaped : while in stiller water, where the fly 

 cannot be so soon carried beyond his ken, his 

 movements are slow and quiet ; wherefore, in 

 such cases, the better the hook is disguised, the 

 greater your chance of succeeding. 



