102 THE TROUT 



a double-handed 12 or 14 feet rod is being used, a 

 larger reel and longer line are of course needed. 



Having thus far dealt with the equipment of a 

 trout fisherman, the only important matter which 

 remains to be considered and very careful thought 

 is here required is that of the flies with which he 

 proposes to kill his fish. 



From the days of Dame Juliana Berners and 

 Isaac Walton down to the present time when 

 Mr. Halford's beautiful work on artificial flies is the 

 standard book on the subject, every angler has 

 some dozen kinds of flies which seem to be univer- 

 sally acknowledged as indispensable, together with 

 certain fancy ones of his own in which he greatly 

 believes, but which could not, by any stretch of the 

 imagination even that of a fisherman be taken as 

 imitations of any natural insect. Take, for instance, 

 the 'Toppy,' or * Hofland's Fancy,' or * Green well's 

 Glory ' (an admirable fly on northern streams), or the 

 ' Zulu ; ' they are not supposed to be exactly like any 

 insect that flies or crawls, but at the same time they 

 possess a sort of resemblance to some, and to this 

 semi-likeness the wile of man has added certain 

 attractive colours to further beguile the trout. 



Isaac Walton has said * there are twelve kinds of 

 artificially made flies to angle with on the top of the 



