RULES FOR TROUT-FISHING. 41 



wood, dead leaves, &e., are collected, and the cur- 

 rent in which these matters swim down : try, also, 

 just below the entrance of one rivulet into another ; 

 likewise where a mill water* joins the stream, and in 

 the eddy at the bottom of a weir : in a word, never 

 omit casting your flies into difficult places ; among 

 stones, into holes, under bushes, &c., which timo- 

 rous anglers, fearful of endangering their tackle, 

 generally pass by : there always lie the best fish. 



If you have a rise, but fail to hook your game, 

 either by striking prematurely, or from the fish having 

 missed his spring, you may throw over him again 

 almost directly, if he be a small one ; but, if it be 

 " the monarch of the brook," don't venture near the 

 spot again for half an hour at least. . 



Be very cautious in approaching the water : if 

 you are once seen, all chance of success is over. 

 Throw sometimes up, sometimes down the stream, 

 as you may be best concealed, and always fish your 

 own side of a river, before you attempt a cast to- 

 wards the opposite bank : the shadow of yourself or 

 rod is equally inimical to success. Either kneel, 



* At the opening of sluices or mill-dams, the course of the 

 water should be pursued, as the fish swim up the stream, 

 seeking food, which the stream brings down with it, and the 

 angler may expect good diversion. Some years ago, at a 

 small rivulet, called Grace-dieu Brook, in Leicestershire, I 

 embraced the opportunity of fishing down the stream as a mill 

 began to work, and which had not been going for several days, 

 for want of water. It was on the approach of dusk ; and, in 

 the course of a very short time, I caught three-and-twenty fine 

 trout with the lob-worm. JOHNSON'S Sporting Cabinet. 



