90 FISHING BY MOONLIGHT 



FISHING BY MOONLIGHT 



And now the moon has risen and is lighting a path 

 of silvery brightness on the placid waters of the 

 trout stream. You are wading,, and the stream is 

 broad, the banks low, and the water where the sedges 

 cast a deep shadow running in depth from 2 feet to 

 8 feet. Watch this path of glory as it lies before 

 you, until you see a small speck of darkness appear, 

 followed by a single tiny ring which quietly opens 

 out round it a rise which would not, perhaps, 

 have been noticed in the daylight, though probably 

 caused by a good fish. Now throw your Silver Sedge 

 just above, and let your fly float down right over the 

 place in which you saw the rise, and you will get your 

 fish, probably with less trouble than in daylight. 

 The pall of night is your background, and therefore 

 the fish are less able to see you ; they are not so sus- 

 picious, nor so prone to seek the shelter of the weeds 

 or the entanglements of their retreat, and until they 

 see you they will not know from which quarter comes 

 the galling restraint of your fly. 



BULGING TROUT 



Trout may at times such times being generally 

 bad for the dry fly fisherman be seen feeding on the 

 nymphse of water insects. On these occasions, although 

 the trout are rising to the surface, they take little 

 or no notice of the natural or artificial fly on the 



