H2 FLY FISHING 



Perseverance and continuous rapid work seemed 

 to have most effect. There was one man who 

 understood those fish better than any one^lse, 

 and who caught far more; he fished nearly 

 every day, and from watching him long and often 

 I became aware of certain peculiarities in his 

 style. Of course he knew the water very well 

 and generally managed to be at a very good 

 place when the rise began, and once there his 

 plan was to stick to his fish and to cast quickly. 

 He dried his fly harder and more rapidly than 

 any one I ever saw, and brought it floating over 

 the fish oftener in a given space of time. His 

 rod and line used to make a very busy sound 

 in the air, as he dried his fly. It was not pretty 

 fishing to watch, but when he made a cast, the 

 line went out straight and accurate, and he once 

 to my knowledge landed in one day from this 

 much-fished part of the river seven brace of 

 trout, all above the limit of size. We used to 

 find him fishing when we came out, and to leave 

 him fishing when we had to go in, but his plan 

 was always the same, to move very little, to 

 watch the river closely when fish were not rising, 

 to cast quickly and incessantly while the rise 



