The Fishing of Rivers with the Wet Fly 99 



rny mind. I argued, that the trout had by 

 far too great a choice of flies at the top of 

 the stream, even to look at any imitation of 

 mine. At the neck, or throat, the wind 

 first struck a miniature earth - cliff, or 

 "scaur " (under the shadow of which I had 

 been standing) ; and as it glanced off, across 

 the rapid waters, I noticed how it frequently 

 engulfed numbers of March Browns. Then, 

 I argued further, that out of this hurly- 

 burly, here and there a solitary FLOATING 

 March Brown would also find itself carried 

 into the pool round the bend; and I 

 reflected after this fashion 



If only a few stray floating flies sail down 

 into the next pool, they will wake up the 

 trout therein to a certainty, and this too, 

 without the chance of such a surfeit as was 

 all too evident at the throat of the stream. 

 These stray flies, I argued, will set a trout 

 feeding here, and another trout rising there ; 

 than which condition of things, there is 

 none so conducive to a heavy creel. 



Besides, a good many drowned flies 

 would also be carried down stream. These, 

 as they reached the stiller waters of the 

 pool itself, would slowly sink, and thus give 

 warning to every trout in the pool to look 

 about also, for the few floating March 



