130 DIBBINa IN SHADED WATER. 



will be able to convey your bait to any spot you 

 fancy. If the weather be too still for the use of 

 the blow -line, try and cast your insect gently, as 

 you would your artificial stretcher when you do 

 not wish to make any the slightest disturbance 

 in low, smooth, clear water. 



I must quote a few lines of the North-country- 

 man again. He remarks justly that, ' Although 

 the shade of trees and bushes is much longer and 

 greater on the south side of the river than on the 

 north, yet on this latter side I have always found the 

 most and the largest trout. I suppose the sun being 

 more intense and warm on the north side, with its 

 southern aspect, may occasion more flies, erucas, 

 and insects of various sorts to creep upon those 

 bushes, and consequently the more fish will fre- 

 quent them. Where the trees or bushes are very 

 close, I advise the bush-angler to take a hedging- 

 bill or hatchet, or in want of that his sporting 

 knife, and cut off two or three branches here and 

 there at proper places and distances, and so make 

 little convenient openings, at which he may put in 

 his rod and line ; but this is to be done some time 

 before he comes to fish there. If you come to a 

 woody place, where you have no such conveni- 

 ences, and where, perhaps, there is a long pool, 

 and no angling with the fly, or throwing the rod, 

 there you may be sure of many and large fish. 

 For that very reason I have chosen such places, 



