ioo TROUT-FISHING IN BROOKS 



Another method of using the flies and gentles, 

 which can hardly be termed dapping, is all but 

 sure to save the situation on any day. This is to 

 fish them in precisely the same way as the clear- 

 water worm, putting on a No. 4 shot 6 in. or 7 in. 

 above the hooks, and working the stickles, pools, 

 etc., similarly. But as in rough water the flies 

 are very liable to come off, casting should be of 

 the gentlest, and the bait wants constant atten- 

 tion. I should mention one important difference 

 from worming, viz., the strike should be sharp on 

 the instant of a touch or of a momentary stoppage 

 of the gut in fast water. 



Having regard to the first method advocated, 

 if for any reason the angler should be unprovided 

 with live flies, he can substitute an artificial Black 

 Palmer (tied on about No. 2 hook, new scale), but 

 one or two gentles on the point of the hook are 

 indispensable, the small shot to be at the head of 

 the fly. This Palmer should have a plain, black 

 body without ribbing. It is not nearly so 

 effective as the living flies, but it often kills well, 

 as I have reason to know. 



In the late summer grasshoppers can be easily 

 caught in the meadows, and are a most excellent 

 bait. They take a single hook a size larger than 

 that used for the caterpillar, which is inserted at 



