76 THE .^SCIENCE OF DRY FLY FISHING. 



for more than three or four minutes, and its use permits the 

 angler to continue his fishing however dark the evening may 

 be. This lamp is English made, and is manufactured and 

 sold by Messrs. Dollond & Co., the well known opticians. 

 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 runs in depth from two feet to eight feet where 

 the sedges cast a deep shadow. Now watch this path of 

 glory as it lies before you, until you see a small speck of dark- 

 ness appear, followed by a single tiny ring which quietly opens 

 out round it (see Plate XVIII.) a rise which would not, 

 perhaps, have been noticed in the daylight, and yet 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 during daylight. The pall of night is your 

 background, and therefore the fish are less able to see you ; 

 they are not so suspicious 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 nymphae of water 



