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the more difficult part, for it is generally more 

 difficult to manage wet flies well, when they 

 are cast up stream. It is probably as easy to 

 rise trout in this way, but in rough streams, 

 or even in smooth swift water, it is not so easy 

 to be sure of seeing or feeling the rise at once. 

 The flies sink deeper, the line is not kept so 

 straight, for the stream instead of extending 

 it makes it slack. By great care, and very 

 frequent casting in order to rise most of the 

 trout just after the flies have alighted on the 

 water, it is possible to avoid or to overcome these 

 difficulties to a very great extent, but the result 

 of my own experience leads me to prefer to fish 

 across and down stream, except when the water 

 is very small and clear in the summer. I re- 

 member one day in August in the lowlands, when 

 the river was full but had cleared after a flood, 

 and I was fishing a quiet smooth stream which ran 

 deep under one bank and became shallower to- 

 wards the other. It happened that I was on the 

 deeper side, and by throwing a light long line 

 across and down stream, and letting the flies 

 come round with a gentle motion, many trout 

 were caught, but nearly all of them took the fly 



