WHERE AND WHEN TO FISH 93 



quite willing to enter the shallower water, where 

 they find it easier to pick up a few insects or 

 a minnow or two than in the deeper, swifter 

 water above. Wherefore, if the angler has been 

 unsuccessful at the head of the stretch, let him, 

 by travelling circuitously, find a position some 

 distance below the lip, and fish the still water 

 carefully as long as he can see his fly. 



If the day is hot and bright, the water low and 

 clear, and the fish not in any of the positions 

 already described, they may be in either one of 

 two places along the bank or in the white 

 water at the head. 



If the fish are lying alongside of the bank 

 they will prove to be as difficult to take as the 

 most fastidious could wish. Knowledge of the 

 crannies, depth, etc., will help the angler and 

 make his task easier. But if the water is strange 

 to him, and the trout must be searched for, his 

 task is more complicated and he must exercise 

 the greatest care in approaching. In many 

 cases the stretches are lined on both sides by 

 alders, willows, and the like, that make it im- 

 possible to cast without entering the water and, 

 by so doing, forming ripples which, advancing 

 ahead of the fly, warn the trout that danger is 

 afoot. Exercising patience, he may walk slowly 



