CHAPTER XIII. 

 COARSE FISH AND THE FLY. 



Other uses for the fly-rod besides trout fishing Chub 

 Stalking them Their wariness Big flies Hot weather 

 required Small dry flies " Not taking " Feeling the 

 fish Strong gut Dace Lost flies Their quick rising 

 Dry-fly fishing Big dace rise more slowly Roach 

 and rudd Perch sometimes take a fly So do pike. 



THE trout is a noble fish, and his best friends could 

 scarce rate him too highly. But he has the dis- 

 advantages incidental to his qualities ; he is a thing 

 of price, and not always to be come at by anglers 

 with slender purses. Also, though pretty wide- 

 spread in his habitation, he is not everywhere to 

 IDC found ; there are many tracts of good angling 

 water which know him not. Still, the young angler 

 need not refrain from learning to use a fly-rod on that 

 account, since it will give him' very pretty sport 

 with other fish, less thought of, it is true, but in my 

 opinion quite as interesting to angle for. First 

 among them is the chub, the loggerhead of Walton's 

 panegyric. This fish the novice knows, for has he 



