3 i4 DRY-FLY FISHING 



at the neck as well, used to be very good. In the 

 glide a pound grayling was almost certain to suck 

 down the fly, and along the high bank fine trout 

 were often to be enticed to rise. Now all is changed. 

 A bold bluff that used to send the water round 

 in a swirl has been sliced off by some flood, the 

 entering stream has altered its character and course, 

 and, though the bright green weed-beds still flourish, 

 we cannot help thinking that the old was better 

 than the new. Still it gives us a beautiful half- 

 pounder, which shows no hint of the approaching 

 spawning season either in condition or power of 

 resistance. 



We go over the stretch once more and yet again, 

 raising a trout occasionally and at long intervals 

 landing one, until, when it is time to bid the river 

 farewell for another season, the basket contains no 

 fewer than ten trout, a take we consider very good 

 and much better than we dared to expect at the 

 beginning of the day. 



