80 TROUT-FISHING FOR THE BEGINNER 



Upstream worming is rather a back- 

 aching business, as one is compelled to 

 crouch more or less when approaching likely 

 places. Occasionally trout come short at 

 the worm, exactly as they do with the fly. 

 They appear just to nip the bait and at once 

 release their hold, the quickest turn of the 

 angler's wrist being too slow to set the hook. 

 The worm should be cast into shallows, streams 

 and all likely runs between stones. Except in 

 winter, it is the shallows which the fish prefer, 

 and there they will be found at midsummer. 



As a means of killing trout, clear-water 

 worming is second to none. It is possible 

 to make some very heavy baskets by this 

 method. Many keen anglers have to take 

 their holidays when the powers that be give 

 the word, and at times when fly-fishing 

 during the day is at a discount. If, there- 

 fore, the beginner chances to be one of the 

 unfortunates, let him not despair, but instead 

 let him practise the art of ^upstream worm- 

 ing, and he will seldom return with an empty 

 basket. At the approach of dusk he can 

 then change from worm to fly, and until it 

 becomes dark or even later, he will find the 

 trout by no means disinclined to accept his 

 feathered lures when the heat of the mid- 

 summer's day is over. 



