42 DRY-FLY FISHING 



suing the restless insects. A change to the Corn- 

 crake or the Cinnamon Sedge, whichever the waters 

 indicate, keeps the angler in excitement. If he 

 will but curb his haste, concentrate on one fish 

 at a time, get his fly into the eddying water at 

 once, keep his eyes from wandering and very 

 difficult it is to do all this he will have a totally 

 different kind of sport, fast and furious, not sedate 

 and serious. The wet-fly will in these circum- 

 stances account for a fish or two ; but a floating 

 sedge will assuredly produce a trout, or at least 

 a rise, at every cast that is accurately delivered. 



Often the loch is covered most liberally with 

 Olive Duns, and yet only a trout here and there 

 wih 1 take one. Now the angler might be seriously 

 tempted to persist on such an occasion with the 

 dry-fly ; but, when it is so apparent that the trout 

 are not feeding on the surface, he should conclude 

 that they are on the look-out for something else. 

 As a matter of fact the dry-fly kills better when 

 no flies are about, than it does when flies are 

 plentiful but are not being taken. Accordingly 

 he should decide that the trout are feeding on the 

 ascending nymphs and, fishing the wet-fly, he will 

 usually do well enough to convince him that the 

 deduction was correct. When the hatch is com- 

 pleted, the floating feast is attended to by the 

 trout, and the dry-fly comes again into favour. 

 Both lures are necessary, each having its special 

 uses, and it is easy to determine when the dry- 

 fly will be acceptable and when it will not, but 

 it is much more difficult to say when the wet-fly 

 will meet with satisfactory response. 



A rising trout of worthy dimensions hooked 



