UPSTREAM WORM FISHING ^^ 



not, return home with a creel lighter than it was before 

 they ate their mid-day meal ; and, besides doing 

 nothing themselves, they make it absolutely impossible 

 for another following on, to fish the stream with any 

 chance of success within half-an-hour of their having 

 disturbed it. 



The way in which a friend, an adept at clear-water 

 worming, would approach and fish this stream is very 

 different. Here is a description of his method. 



He enters the reach at the very tail end, where, 

 at the edge, the water ripples along some two or three 

 inches deep. The manner of his beginning may be com- 

 pared to an otter's in the quietness with which he enters 

 the river ; there is no splash or disturbance, and, more 

 probably than not, he will stoop to avoid being seen. 



He wiU make the first cast straight upstream, the 

 worm entering the water twenty-five or thirty feet in 

 front of him, but only some six to twelve inches from 

 the bank. 



Many beginners have laughed at the idea of a fish 

 being caught in such a place, but let the unbelievers 

 walk on a bright summer's day along the bank of a 

 trout stream, and what do they see ? Innumerable 

 fish darting away from the edges of the river, scared 

 at their approach. It is for these very fish that our 

 expert intends to try, when he makes his cast at the 

 extreme edge of the river. 



Directly the worm reaches the water, it begins to 



