92 FLY FISHING 



solation than he expects. One piece of advice 

 may be given to all anglers, who begin dry 

 fly fishing when they are young, and that is to 

 make themselves ambidextrous, to be able to cast 

 with the left hand as well as with the right. To 

 my great regret I can only use a single-handed 

 rod with the right hand, but I have seen one 

 man at least, who could use either hand equally 

 well, and the advantage of being able to use the 

 left hand when fishing up the left bank of a river 

 against the wind is enormous. 



On any day in May and June there will 

 almost certainly be some sort of a rise at some 

 time of the day, but rises are of all sorts. Some 

 of the best seeming rises are the most disap- 

 pointing, and some of those which seem poor 

 turn out to be good taking ones. Whatever 

 the kind of rise may be, it is well to bear in 

 mind that there are some trout which seem to 

 be set as decoys in certain places to attract the 

 angler's attention and make him waste his time. 

 These trout begin to rise soon and leave off 

 late, and refuse to take an artificial fly. The 

 angler who knows the water well, probably 

 knows most of these fish or the places which 



