26 Wet- Fly Fishing 



Again, when "a water" runs down to 

 its summer level, trout seek out well- 

 defined stations ; but, during a flood, 

 they get scattered all over the place, very 

 often hugging the banks, or even lying 

 under them for two reasons. First, to 

 pick up worms, etc., which get flooded out 

 of their holes ; and second, in order to get 

 out of the full strength of the heavy current. 



Stewart's book, when it first appeared, 

 set my ardent young soul on fire. Indeed, 

 it is not too much to say of Stewart, that 

 he did what no man did before him, what 

 no man has ever done since, or ever will 

 do again, viz. he revolutionized the fishing 

 of rivers and waters throughout Scotland. 

 We all owe a deep debt to the author of 

 " The Practical Angler." 



I have never regretted becoming his 

 disciple, in respect of the fishing of waters, 

 just as I became, later on, the pupil of 

 Mark Aitken, in whom I recognized the 

 very best exponent I had ever met of the 

 art of fishing rivers; such as the Tweed, 

 or its large tributary the Teviot in its 

 lower reaches. 



The men were as different as their 

 methods ; and yet, in his own style of 

 stream, each was a past-master in the art. 



