82 TROUT FISHING 



quill which Mr. G. E. M. Skues introduced to me, 

 and for the blue upright, which I was led first to try 

 on chalk streams from previous experience with it 

 as an evening fly on mountain streams. 



Not very long ago another fly surprisingly added 

 itself to the list of infallibles. It happened during 

 an evening rise on the Kennet, when the blue- 

 winged olive was hatching out well. For some 

 reason the fall of spinner, which usually makes a 

 certain number of trout rise, had not done so on this 

 evening, only an occasional ring having appeared 

 at long intervals. And for more than two hours 

 the rod had been quite idle. About half-past eight, 

 however, the duns began to hatch and soon after- 

 wards the trout were taking notice of them. 

 Obviously, according to my belief of the moment, 

 the orange quill or the blue-winged olive would do 

 what was required. But neither pattern gained the 

 shadow of a rise. I changed to a blue upright. 

 That failed. I tried a blue quill, an ordinary olive, 

 a red quill, and several other approved patterns such 

 as the coachman. They all failed. 



I studied my fly-box gloomily and at last picked 

 out a Greenwell's Glory. I felt no confidence in it 

 at all for it was a pattern which I could not remember 

 ever floating dry over a trout before; though, of 

 course, it is a fly which many anglers use with 

 confidence as a floating pattern, I had so far 



