136 FLY FISHING 



will be over, and during the last hours of the 

 day not very much will be added, but it is 

 always worth while to fish steadily with a wet 

 fly, both before the rise begins and after it is 

 over. This is another instance of the difference 

 between wet and dry fly fishing. On a Hamp- 

 shire chalk stream a day's fishing may mean 

 that the angler has spent a day by the river, 

 but it generally does not mean that he has 

 fished all day: on a wet fly river it should 

 mean both, unless there should be some violent 

 interruption from the weather, or unless the 

 water should rise quickly or be in flood and out 

 of order. 



In April I do not fish on into the evening, 

 but leave off about the end of the afternoon : 

 after a good day it is pleasant to sit a little 

 on the bank after all signs of trout have 

 ceased, listening to the sound of the water, and 

 thinking with content of what has passed 

 leaving till a later hour the anticipation of 

 other days that may be yet to come. 



Other days there are indeed in April of a 

 very different kind : bitter days when savage 

 gusts smite upon the water and whirl the line 



