CHAPTER VIII 

 AXIOMS, NOTES AND THEORIES GRAYLING FISHING 



Hints to the student Axioms and advice on sundry fishing matters 

 Loch and lake fishing Grayling. 



HINTS TO THE STUDENT 



EXPERIENCE and common-sense are the most valuable 

 guides when actually fishing. No two days are alike, and at 

 each step the fisherman will most likely be confronted with 

 an absolutely new combination of circumstances. This is 

 perhaps one of the greatest charms of dry fly fishing. To 

 read is good, because it shows from the personal knowledge 

 of others that no two experiences of the same writer are 

 absolutely alike, and no hard-and-fast axioms of fishing lore 

 can invariably be followed. The attendant circumstances 

 should guide the immediate actions of the moment. 



There are, however, certain truths and axioms which 

 occur to me and which the beginner might do well to 

 remember ; they may perhaps be tinged with a personal 

 colour, for they are the results of my own fishing experience. 



The fisherman should always remember that nothing 

 succeeds like success, and if he believes in the fly he is using 

 he is more likely to be successful than if he is doubtful as 

 to its virtues. The suggestion that the fly he is using must 

 be the best assists him while fishing. I can even imagine a 

 day's salmon fishing to be interesting from start to finish 

 in spite of the fact that no salmon have come at the fly, 

 if the fisherman himself believes that his fly is the only one 

 that will kill at the time. 



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