ARTIFICIAL FLY-FISHING IN RIVERS AND LAKES. 81 
into its several branches—River fly-fishing, Lake fly- 
fishing, Worm-fishing, Minnow-fishing, Lake and River 
Spinning, Fishing with the natural fly and “creeper,” 
and Fishing with the dry-fly. 
RIVER FLY-FISHING. 
There has been much excellent writing devoted to 
describing How, When, and Where to fish for Trout in 
rivers and streams; and this is one reason—want of 
space another—why I shall not go very minutely into 
those questions. It seems doubtful also whether anglers, 
as a rule, read, or if they read, remember so as to derive 
practical benefit from the detailed maxims and rules 
laid down on these subjects. 
With regard to particular states of the atmosphere, 
for instance, some writers think the presence of ozone 
in a greater or a less proportion may probably make 
one day more favourable than another for fly-fishing. 
But what then? Nine men out of ten fish just the 
same, and make the best basket they can, whether 
they know, or think they know, the day to be good 
or bad; whilst as to “Where” to fish in any par- 
ticular river, the only really available knowledge is 
to be gained by experience, and the most general 
instructions are all that can be given or recollected. 
Again, as regards the “ How.” The proper movement 
of a fly-rod is very difficult to describe intelligibly, and 
I advise all tyros who do not understand the art to get 
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