So BROOK AND RIVER TROUTING 



casting distance, one showing distinctly above the 

 surface of the water, while the others are detected 

 only by the broken surface of the stream. 



This is another very likely place, but our friend 

 prefers the edges of the stream and thinner water to 

 such places, although the latter are often good for 

 two or three fish. The first cast is made towards the 

 near bank, but without result. The second also fails 

 to entice a fish, although the worm was dropped just 

 by the side of one of the submerged boulders. At the 

 third cast, however, which was made to the other side 

 of the same boulder, a fish fastens and is brought to 

 net. The golden gleam of another trout is seen as he 

 is turned over, but missed, behind one of the other 

 rocks. Then at the succeeding cast the worm enters 

 the water about a foot beyond the rock which lifts 

 above the surface of the stream. The sharp water 

 running round the side of a boulder forms a favourite 

 feeding place for a fish ; a trout occup5dng such a 

 position usually lies with his head slightly in advance 

 of the rock. The worm has just time to sink before 

 it is picked up by the stream and carried rapidly down 

 the run. A fish turns and darts after it. He seizes his 

 prey as it sweeps almost past the rock, the steel is 

 gently driven home, and another fish duly joins his 

 brethren in the creel. 



The whole of the stream is worked in the foregoing 

 manner, the far edge of the river being treated in the 



