68 THE TROUT 



is allowed as well as the more legitimate artificial fly, 

 let him not fail to put in his fishing-book two or three 

 'Spinning Alexandras/ attached to fine gut traces. 

 These bunches of peacock's feathers and silver tinsel, 

 with their triangles of small hooks, are in general 

 most efficacious. By their aid I have often caught 

 good trout, when I have been permitted to use this 

 so-called e poaching ' arrangement, in water which had 

 proved perfectly obdurate to other angling artifices. 



Whenever a river is * running off 7 after a flood, the 

 edges of the heavy water should be searched by 

 the Alexandra : under bridges in the deeper parts of 

 the streams it works wonders, and as the ordinary fly 

 rod is available for this manner of fishing, it has the 

 great merit of convenience. Moreover it is a pretty 

 sport, and one which is very likely to add a store 

 of good trout to the fisherman's basket when other 

 methods may have failed. 



