VI: CLEAR WATER WORM-FISHING 



THERE being not a few fly purists who 

 appear to consider worm-fishing for 

 trout a mere poaching device, and one 

 of so stream-stripping a character as seriously to 

 injure a fishery, besides being prejudicial to the 

 employment of other methods, permit me to 

 quote two out of many authorities. 



The first, from the Badminton Library, is as 

 follows : " Clear water worm-fishing has been of 

 late years rescued from a position of obscurity 

 and elevated into one of the recognised branches 

 of scientific angling. ... An extreme refinement 

 of tackle and niceness of manipulation is required 

 of the successful practitioner in the modern school 

 of worm-fishing." Mr. W. C. Stewart, of well- 

 known trout-fishing fame, says : " Those who 

 despise worm-fishing as a thing as simple as to be 

 quite unworthy of their attention would quickly 

 discover their mistake if brought to a small, clear 

 water on a warm day in June or July." 



Very true ; let any angler inexperienced in this 

 art try his hand at any time and in any condition 



