CHAPTEE III. 



THE FISHING OF WATERS WITH THE WET FLY. 



IN Scotland, running streams are, as a rule, 

 roughly classified into three varieties or 

 grades, namely (1) Burns, (2) Waters, and 

 (3) Eivers. 



Every one, I presume, knows what a 

 hill-burn is, and a river is surely big enough 

 to speak for itself. Class No. 2, waters, 

 is at present our subject, and to anglers of 

 the wet-fly school it is one of great and 

 abiding interest. Many of them are famous 

 in song, such as " The Banks of Allan 

 Water," " Braw, braw Lads of Gala Water," 

 and many others. It is not my intention 

 to dwell on this aspect of our Scottish waters, 

 but to look at them solely from their angling 

 point of view. And in that connection, it 

 becomes very important to understand how 

 the methods of fishing any stream of the 

 volume, width, and generally having all 

 the features of "a water," somewhat differ 



