VIII. 

 WHEN TO FISH FOR TROUT. 



|ZAAK WALTON, Chap. V., fourth 

 day, says, " And if he hit to make his 

 fly right, and have the hick to hit also 

 where there is a store of trouts, a dark 

 day and a right wind." 



A dark day and a right wind no doubt is every 

 fly-fisher's wish when he goes a-fishing — but which 

 is a right wind ? 



" When the wind is south 



It blows your bait into a fish's mouth." 



Others are loud in the praises of a westerly wind, 

 but to quote from the *' Complete Angler " again, 

 Walton hits the mark in the following passage : 

 "And yet, as Solomon observes, that, 'he that 

 considers the winds, shall never sow,' so he that 



