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below that part of the stream opposite to him." 

 Now this is nothing less than an attempt at a 

 compromise between up-stream and down-stream 

 fishing, and comes strangely from a fisherman of 

 Mr Stewart's experience. According to this method 

 the angler is going down -stream, first revealing 

 himself and all his belongings to the fish, and then 

 attempting to hoodwink and capture them by fish- 

 ing up. I should call this the walking-down sys- 

 tem of fishing up. To command a wide river when 

 fishing down, one may sometimes require to cast 

 right across, more generally across and down, but 

 certainly never across and up. In fishing down an 

 ordinary stream from the channel side, the angler 

 should cast towards the bank at an angle of about 

 70 from his own side, and allow the current to 

 bring the flies down and across until the line makes 

 an angle of about 25 with the channel, when he 

 may consider the cast spent. Then let him take 

 a step or two down-stream, and repeat the pro- 

 cess over another stretch of fresh water. If he 

 is fishing down from the bank side, however, and 

 casting towards the channel in a broad stream, he 

 must give the line an angle of about 55 with the 

 bank, in smaller rivers a proportionally smaller 

 angle, and in both cases allow the flies to sail down 

 till they are extended in a straight line below him 

 close into the bank. Covering in this way more 



