DEFENCE OF UP-STREAM ANGLING 37 



him fairly and hell curtsy to you, though 

 at times he may only play ' snooks ' at you. 



Another occasion for persistent fishing and 

 oft-repeated casting over the same water has 

 been advocated by a south country angler 

 or anglers ' The Marquess of Granby and 

 others ' in The Fur, Feather, and Fin series, 

 1898, q.v. p. 28. 



A lovely little slip, as it appears to us 

 northern anglers, comes in in the words 

 1 even when fishing up-stream/ and the fol- 

 lowing remarks about the ' parson and the 

 grey hackle-fly,' a ' small partridge hackle ' 

 (p. 29), positively make us ' chuckle/ in 

 common, I presume, with other north 

 country anglers. 



The occasion they mention is that of 

 'tailing' of fish, which we speak of under 

 ' Food-supplies/ infra ; and we are perfectly 

 ' at one ' with them when they recommend 

 ' hackle-flies ' as the most useful under such 

 conditions. We could add another ' tip/ 

 but do not feel inclined to commit ourselves, 

 as it is only very lately we have tried it, 

 both for 'tailing' and 'bulging' trout the 

 latter a term, by the way, new to us in the 



