FLY FISHING FOR TROUT 



In the second place, it will have been remarked that 

 our expert did not begin to cast the very moment he 

 had completed his preparations, but stood for a while 

 looking both up and down stream to see where any 

 fish were moving, so as accurately to ' locate ' their 

 whereabouts, and obviate the necessity of beginning 

 to fish without knowing as exactly as possible where 

 he had better place his fly. He concluded on the 

 whole that it would be better to start with the trout 

 which he saw rising in the river above him than to go 

 down-stream some way, making a wide detour into 

 the fields so as to avoid disturbing the water, and he 

 therefore decided to t go for ' the fish whose capture 

 has been described. Having thus made up his mind, 

 he walked very carefully up-stream some way off the 

 water, and having arrived within a measurable dis- 

 tance of his object, he approached the river, and, 

 sinking on his knees, judged carefully the space 

 which intervened between himself and the rising 

 trout. How he arrived at the right spot for so doing 

 may be explained by saying that he had carefully 

 marked the place by a particular willow-tree just 

 above the doomed fish. It need perhaps hardly be 

 added that our angler was equipped with a pair of 

 light waders for rheumatism is a thing to be avoided 

 as much as possible. 



