The Fishing of Rivers with the Wet Fly 107 



do no execution whatever, because they 

 lack the requisite judgment and delicacy. 



Pools in any large river are usually 

 fished differently to the streams. 



A river when brimful (as I have pointed 

 out) is fished on very different lines from 

 the methods employed when it has fallen 

 to summer level. 



It is, to the fisherman, to all intents and 

 purposes, another river then. 



Again, the force and direction of the 

 wind are important factors which cannot 

 be ignored. 



I have said that I dislike to fish a 

 muddy river, even if it may be, as at times 

 I am assured it is, a favourable time for 

 big results. I have never found it so 

 myself; but, beyond question, others have 

 occasionally done so, and it is perfectly 

 legitimate to take trout with the wet fly 

 then. Choose, if you can, some broad and 

 rather shallow pool. Any one w r ho knows 

 " Monks-Ford " * above Dryburgh, on the 

 Tweed, and has seen it when a flood was 

 subsiding, will bear witness that it is an 

 exceptionally good place then, and is very 

 easy to wade. 



Somehow, trout are often to be seen 



* It is now strictly preserved water. 



