102 MODERN PRACTICAL ANGLER. 



Trout take the stone-fly best imder water, and close to 

 the edges of the stream or pool, even under hollow 

 banks, if the fly can be got there. This point is laid 

 ?much stress on by Border anglers, and with good reason, 

 inasmuch as the natural spots to find the fly are close to 

 the banks, from which they are washed ; and it is here 

 consequently that the Trout come to look for them. A 

 dark full water is more favourable for the effective use 

 of the stone-fly than one that is low and clear ; but in 

 both states good baskets may be made with it. The flies 

 •should be collected in a box the night or early morning 

 before they are to be used ; the best places for finding 

 them being under the stones above, but near the water's 

 edge ; and where most cast-off shells are seen, the fly 

 will probably be found to be most numerous. 



Colonel Campbell tells me that he has had great success 

 •on the Border streams, with this fly used with blow-line 

 tackle (as described on the next page). 



A method of natural-fly fishing is also much practised 

 ■on the Peterel, and doubtless on many other neighbouring 

 streams, in which tzvo flies — the generic names of which 

 I could not ascertain — are used upon a small double hook. 



The season for stone-fly fishing begins about the 

 middle of May, and ends about the middle of June. 



BLOW-LINE FISHING WITH THE MAY-FLY. 



Besides the fishing above described the only really 

 effective method of using the natural fly for Trout is 



