V: WET FLY 



THIS, the ordinary method of fly-fishing, 

 is much more general in brook work, 

 and can be pursued from the first day 

 of the season to its close, the spring being, on the 

 whole, the most remunerative period. For 

 when these little streams have fined down to 

 summer level, water suitable in spring will have 

 quite changed in character, and the trout have 

 gained very considerably in experience. I need 

 scarcely recapitulate the parts of a brook where 

 it is possible to fly-fish. The rock-broken currents 

 of a mountain stream which might be prejudicial 

 to the dry fly do not affect the wet one. 



In spring fishing, a matter to guard against in 

 casting will be the presence of innumerable fine 

 leafless twigs all about a lowland brook. It is a 

 veritable Scylla and Charybdis, for if the caster 

 escapes hitching in one direction, he is very likely 

 to get hung up in another. All that can be done 

 is to take stock on all sides before starting to cast. 

 If one does get hitched it is advisable to try very 

 gentle means and avoid hard twitching at first, 



