WORM FISHING AND SPINNING FOR TROUT 63 



during the summer months, when the sun is abroad 

 and the shallows visible, is not easily forgotten. 



You must wade, and your rod must be fairly stiff 

 one of about eleven feet long will serve. In all 

 other particulars your tackle should be the same as 

 that which you would use when fishing a wee burn or 

 beck, always premising that you have a reel holding 

 sufficient line to compete with the fighting qualities 

 of a bold, strong, pound and a half fish. For in 

 rivers such as these the trout run to this size and 

 larger. 



In direct contradistinction to the usually accepted 

 doctrine which lays down that clouds are a valuable 

 help towards a good day's sport, the sun is hailed by 

 you with approbation ; for it is in the shallower water 

 wherein the trout lie basking, enjoying the warmth, 

 that on such occasions you will to a large extent 

 rely for the best part of your day's sport. Your pro- 

 ceedings must be of much the same nature as when 

 ' worming ' a smaller river ; except that in all proba- 

 bility you will kill many of your fish close to, or on, 

 the aforementioned shallows. 



In wading up the clear runs for you must fish 

 up-stream you should move as gently as you can, so 

 as to cause as small a disturbance of the water as may 

 be contrived. When you have hooked a fish do not 



