50 THE WONDERFUL TROUT 



and the flies, both salmon and trout, which 

 we would employ under such colours or 

 approximate colours of water and sky. 



When the water is just clearing from 

 f yellow ' or ' clay ' or e pea-soup ' (see scale 

 and gauge, p. 169) to ' drumly,' and before 

 or during the c porter ' or ' peat ' stage, and 

 when it is too high to fish comfortably up, 

 or to wade against, and standing well back 

 from the lip and casting across is the order 

 of the day, then a large red hackle, a ' wood- 

 cock-and-red,' a ' teal-and-red/ or a fly with 

 some red in it ought to be on the cast. 



When the water is in the above condition, 

 with varying skies and big white clouds, 

 very often trout are found to rise short ; but 

 when the water clears a little more, say to 

 light porter or dark amber, then trout often 

 take very surely and very keenly, if the flies 

 above mentioned are large enough, and trout 

 will even begin to rise at smaller flies if 

 amongst froth or in an eddy. 



When the ' light amber ' stage is reached, 

 we believe in yellow flies, but some degree of 

 further selection may always be caused by 

 the colour of the sky and reflections. A ' pro- 



