80 BUSH OR SHADE FISHING. 



the sun on the north side may occasion more flies, 

 erucas, and insects to creep upon those bushes, and 

 consequently the trout are found to flock in great 

 number under them. 



When the trees, &c\ are very close, take a hedging 

 bill or hatchet, and cut off two or three branches 

 here and there, at convenient distances ; thus leaving 

 small openings, through which the rod and line may 

 be easily introduced. This must, of course, be done 

 some time before you commence fishing. 



Should the angler meet with a spot thus over- 

 grown with underwood, &c., where, perhaps, there is 

 a long pool, and no angling with the fly or throwing 

 the line, and have with him neither of the above 

 instruments, there he may be sure of many and large 

 fish. Never, for this reason, which commonly 

 deters timorous or inexperienced sportsmen, never 

 pass such pools, however troublesome to get at. It 

 will be often necessary to creep under trees and 

 bushes, dragging the rod by the top ; yet he will be 

 well paid for the trouble. Whilst manoeuvring to 

 get in the bait, throw a brandling or grub, &c. into 

 the water, and the fish will take the bait the more 

 boldly. 



There is one particular mode by which I have 

 killed more fish than by any other : Dress the 

 hook with a brown head, and with pretty large wings 

 of a mottled drake's feather, or a starling's wing, and 

 a bristle upon the back of the hook ; put on a large 

 grub, cod-bait, beetle, or grasshopper, and have a 

 little bottle with dissolved assafcetida, or some strong- 



