USING THE WET FLY. 107 



my experience of down-stream fishing, as against 

 the other style, is that one seems to get a good 

 many more " short rises," that is to say, one feels 

 pluck after pluck at the flies without any further 

 result, and also that one hooks not a few fish 

 lightly, only to lose them after a brief run. 



The fault may lie in the fisherman rather than in 

 the method, for I know a good many expert anglers 

 who do not seem to find the same difficulties nearly 

 so prominent when they are fishing down stream. 

 Up-stream fishing has one obvious advantage which 

 it is worth while to remember if it comes to making 

 a choice between the two styles, and that is the 

 relative position of fisherman and fish. Approach- 

 ing his quarry from the rear he has a much better 

 chance of getting his flies over it without causing 

 alarm, and he can do so with a much shorter line 

 than would be required if he were making a frontal 

 attack ; when it comes to hooking and playing so 

 active a fish as a trout, that in itself is a great 

 consideration. 



