74 THE WONDERFUL TROUT 



where one cannot comfortably wade, or on 

 boisterous days when it is almost too fatiguing 

 to try. In larger streams, even where 

 very shallow, and the shadow of your rod 

 can be kept off the water you are fishing, a 

 shorter and stiff rod is all that is required, 

 if the angler wades. We use generally a 

 twelve-foot split-cane Hardy. We find it 

 ample with a line from half as long again 

 as the rod, to at most twice the length the 

 latter only used occasionally. 



Of other worm-anglers' requisites we need 

 not speak, as anglers can best please them- 

 selves with two-hook, three-hook, or four- 

 hook tackles, or fine single wires, all of which 

 have their own advocates. 



' The best rate for the worm to travel at 

 is undoubtedly the natural one, and if the 

 trout wish to seize it they have plenty of 

 time to do so ' (p. 142). 



Their education is up to that standard ! 

 Therefore we rarely use sinkers, except under 

 certain circumstances. Instance, in high 

 water, when one would be better employed 

 in howkin' worms. Or in a heavy down- 

 stream wind, when, after all, one would be 



