154 Trout Flies. 



But trout are proverbially capricious, and you 

 never know what they will take till you get to the 

 river. You feel certain that this or that fly 

 must take in such and such weather, and you find 

 all your certainties scattered to the winds. Here 

 is an example : — 



Fishing, one day in July, at Kingsworthy, on 

 the Itchin, we had some capital sport with the 

 Chantry — the fish not looking at anything else ; 

 and all the trout we took were large and fat. The 

 next morning (we had put up at that nice, clean 

 little inn, the Cart and Horses, close to our fishing 

 ground) after breakfast, we adjourned to the river, 

 selecting the Chantry again after such sport as 

 yesterday. Wind and weather being the same. 

 My friend went to the upper part. I began fishing at 

 the mill; fished carefully the mill tail ; not a rise ; 

 then went above. On nearing the left bank I saw 

 the fish rising in quick succession on the opposite 

 side ; I threw over some of them ; not a fish would 

 take. I then crossed over and fished up stream, 

 threw my fly most carefully over three or four fine 

 fellows ; they would not look at it. I then perceived 

 a small fly — a Dun — almost a midge, coming 

 down. This the fish were taking greedily. I 

 happened to have some grayling flies in my 

 book. I picked out one extremely small, dressed 

 on the smallest hook— No. i8. It was a Dun, 



