76 SEA FLY-FISHING. [PART I. 



those recommended for spinning. When thus 

 ready for a start you should, with the point of 

 your rod slanted down into the water (more or less 

 according to its depth), and about fifteen or twenty 

 yards of line out, be rowed over the most likely 

 parts of it. You will probably, though tempted to 

 do so at first, find it a loss of time to pull up as soon 

 as you feel you have a fish on, but prefer waiting 

 until the strain on the rod tells you that you have 

 enough to make it worth while. Then, raising the 

 point of it, up they will come in a string, perhaps 

 from half a dozen to nearly three times that num- 

 ber. I believe I may say I have seen each of six- 

 teen hooks on a line garnished with a fish at the 

 same time, and I have myself brought up two on 

 one hook. * While at anchor I have, merely with a 

 single joint of a rod, or a walking-stick, with two 

 or three flies attached to it, caught scores of these 

 little fellows, by simply moving it backwards and 

 forwards under water. With a hoop-net, like a 

 minnow-net on a large scale, great numbers can be 

 caught off the stern of a vessel at anchor, if they 

 have been previously attracted to the spot by 

 baiting it freely. 



Were the sport, whilst fishing with the fly in 

 the way last described, confined to Cuddies, it 



