198 Dry-Fly Fishing. 



spinning tackle is rigged up in the excellent fashion 

 prevailing on the Thames, and who fishes with a 

 recently killed, bright, small bleak artistically 

 impaled on a flight of four triangle hooks and a 

 single lip hook, bound on picked refina gut, will 

 have the best chance. The live-bait fisherman next 

 (and later on he will capture most of the larger 

 trout), but the fly-fisherman has little or no luck at 

 all so early ; indeed, all through the season it is to- 

 be regretted that fly-fishing is scarcely worth 

 pursuing. Thames trout, especially over the Conser- 

 vancy limit, do not often rise to natural flies, much 

 less to artificial, and to have to put back all caught 

 nnder sixteen inches in length rather discourages 

 fly-fishers from trying. 



