86 FLY FISHING AND SPINNING 



experience in daylight. The pall of night is your back- 

 ground, 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. 



