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the fly must be kept moving a little faster than the 

 current, but it is often well worth while, especially 

 With trout that are much fished for in the ordinary 

 down-stream way. To them a fly moving down 

 over their heads comes as a refreshing novelty, and" 

 is sometimes welcome. Finally, though fishing the 

 salmon fly for trout is not perhaps the noblest 

 mode of taking them, it has its difficulties and its 

 fascinations. On the trout stream proper it has no 

 place and no right of it, but, where trout are few, 

 heavy, and hard to beguile among shoals of coarse 

 fish, it is entitled to rank as very pretty art. 



Somewhere midway between this kind of fishing 

 and wet-fly fishing on a mountain stream as 

 described in a previous chapter comes loch-fishing 

 of the ordinary kind. It is kin to both styles, for 

 sometimes it requires the use of the usual small 

 wet-flies, sometimes of large and more gaudy 

 patterns, which are not quite salmon flies and not 

 quite trout flies. Such confections as the teal and 

 green, teal and red, butcher/ Zulu, grouse and 

 green or claret, etc., form a rather large family by 

 themselves. Most of them are deadly on occasion,, 

 but I think the yellow-bodied March brown is as 

 good as any of them in most circumstances. If the- 

 novice is going to visit any particular loch, he 

 would do well to take the advice of local gillies. IF 



