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fish and more of them ; he fishes over per- 

 haps one-fourth or one-fifth of the extent of 

 river which the down- stream fisher does, 

 and lays his flies (not his line, necessarily) 

 over every feeding fish that is reachable ; he 

 disturbs the water scarcely at all; and he 

 frightens and renders shy not one-tenth of 

 the fish which the man does who 'throws 

 the long shadows o'er the pool.' 



If you find a good trout ' rising short ' (of 

 which we will have more to say) or refusing 

 on a second or even third application, re- 

 member that that may be caused by some 

 tiny swirl or eddy, though it may also arise 

 from other different causes. Therefore it may 

 be worth while, in the case of a good trout, 

 to alter your standpoint and try again (see 

 ante, p. 36, and infra, p. 64). The great 

 pull an up-stream angler possesses over the 

 'down-streamer ' is well expressed by Stewart 

 in the last two sentences on p. HO. 1 The 

 hurried dash made at a fly crossing the 

 stream in jerks and jumps, almost certainly 

 often account for what is termed 'short- 

 rising.' But that ' short-rising ' occurs from 

 this alone we do not credit, and later on, we 



1 Refer to Stewart's book. 



