DEFENCE OF UP-STREAM ANGLING 31 



you will have less short rising/ (The reply 

 might probably be ' Darn ! ' or something 

 stronger.) 



The seemlier way we believe to be a 

 gentle raising of the hand, or what may be 

 described as the ' turning of a key in the 

 well-oiled lock of a door/ 1 This is easy in the 

 case of up-stream fishing with a short, taut 

 line between rod-top and tail-fly, but the more 

 difficult the longer the line used, and when 

 a big slack of the line has to be recovered. 



The other advantages of fishing up are 

 all detailed by Stewart. Undoubtedly up- 

 stream fishing is harder exercise than is 

 down-stream fishing, and we will endeavour 

 to illustrate this. On one occasion in which 

 we were ourselves fishing up along with an 

 angling friend, and we were passing one 

 another, taking hundred-yards reaches time 

 about. The one counted the other's casts, 

 timing with a stop-watch, and repeated the 



1 We wrote this description at the time, either not 

 knowing that it was so written before, or forgetting that 

 we had read it (see Younger's River Angling, 2nd edit., 

 1864, p. 127). Anyway, we believe in the description 

 as perhaps as accurate a one as can be found r anywhere 

 in angling literature. 



