82 Artificial- Fly Fishing. 



strong current, fish are to be got only at the bank 

 or channel, 1 and not in mid-stream. In this case, 

 should the angler be on the channel side, it is 

 advisable to fish the water from that side, casting 

 across and slightly down-stream towards the bank, 

 and allowing the current to bring the flies slowly 

 round. When on the bank-side of a full water, 

 black or clear, fish up only those banks where fish 

 are rising and where the current is easy. Fishing 

 down here would disturb the water below too 

 much. If the river be heavy, fish down and across, 

 selecting the gentler runs and ebb-waters. To 

 fish up in these circumstances might bring the 

 flies down too rapidly for the trout to be able to 

 see them, for their vision is not so acute in a heavy 

 water as in a low clear one. Another considera- 

 tion that determines the angler to fish down here 

 is, that thereby he is enabled to cover more water 

 and catch more trout in a day's fishing than would 

 be possible were he to adopt the slower and more 

 fatiguing process of wading up a heavy stream; 

 while, the water being full and heavy, there is not 

 to the same extent that disturbance to the fish 

 below which would follow on fishing down a low 

 clear water. 



1 This word, in the angler's vocabulary, signifies the shelving 

 gravelly side of the stream, as opposed to the higher grassy 

 bank. 



