CHAP. vii. Hog-backed Fly Spoon. 129 



spoon. But I confess that I should put it a little differently, I 

 should say that a small hog-backed fly spoon of f of an inch in 

 length, and so light that you can throw it much like a fly, is the 

 more killing in such waters, though the fly is pleasanter to cast. Most 

 of the Indian carps too, when they grow large, become predacious 

 enough to take a small spoon of this size. The illustration is the 

 exact size. 



THE ROD IN INDIA. 



