100 Fly-Fishing for Mahseer. Chapt. vn. 



you need not, and you should not. With trout and small fish, it is 

 quite another thing. The rationale of the matter will be found 

 further discussed, however, in the Chapter on the Carnatic Carp. 



I may add, that the salmon fly has yet another redeeming point, 

 over and above those mentioned in Chapter IV. Though, in my 

 opinion, you catch fewer Mahseer with the fly than spinning, still I 

 think you have a better chance of a variety of fish with the fly, 

 than with a small fish. Other fine carps more or less like the 

 Mahseer have much smaller mouths comparatively, and cannot 

 therefore readily take the same sized fish-bait, as the Mahseer. 

 These take the fly better, and as a consequence do not feed so much 

 nn lish. But they must have a chapter to themselves. 



