78 BROOK AND RIVER TROUTING 



travel naturally and without drag towards the angler, 

 who slowly raises the point of his rod, keeping in touch 

 with the worm so that a twist of the wrist will imme- 

 diately drive the hook home if a fish takes hold. He 

 is careful to avoid drag, which is fatal, and is usually 

 caused by the too rapid raising of the rod point. 

 Without moving his position he makes another cast, 

 only this time slightly more across the stream, then 

 another and another, each being further from the bank. 



He now wades gently a yard further upstream. In 

 front of him, and just within casting distance, he 

 notices an obstacle which causes a tiny eddy. The 

 object is little more than a good-sized tuft of grass 

 jutting out from the bank, but even that so alters 

 the flow of the water, as to form a likely feeding place 

 for a fish. The cast is carefully made and the worm 

 falls into the water as though it had crawled to the 

 edge of the grass and dropped in. 



Almost as soon as the worm has touched the water 

 the current carries it gently, and quite naturcdly, into 

 the eddy. The line stops, our friend withholds his 

 hand, and it is not until the line moves slightly towards 

 the main stream that he gives a turn of the wrist, 

 driving the hook home into a nice half-pound fish. 

 For a moment it splashes dangerously in the shallow 

 water before making off for the deeper stream. The 

 hook, however, is well home and the captive is quickly 

 brought down and drawn over the submerged net. 



