132 Rambles with a Fishing-Rod. 



fair trout and grayling fishing may well be 

 regarded as a merely nominal charge. A fish- 

 ing tour does not add to the luggage, because 

 nothing more is needed than two rods one a 

 single-handed fly-rod, the other a double-handed 

 medium fly-rod of about 14 feet, with top 

 joints, which will enable it to be used either 

 for fly-fishing, or, on an emergency, trolling, if 

 carefully used and a good supply of artificial 

 flies and minnows. Any touring angler who 

 runs short of tackle after he has left England 

 must either give up his fishing or wait until 

 he can procure more tackle from home; for 

 the flies even of the professional fisherman 

 are of the rudest kind, and half-a-dozen of 

 a first-class English make will be regarded 

 by him as a most gratifying gift. Indeed 

 scientific fishing is really almost unknown 

 abroad; the grasshopper, the worm, or the 

 live minnow exhaust the repertoire of the 

 Continental fisherman's lures. In compara- 

 tively unfished waters a moderately skilful 

 angler, with good English tackle, may thus 

 have often really excellent sport, and not only 

 in out-of-the-way places, but in those where 

 travellers most resort. Thus, at a frequented 



