64 ARTIFICIAL FLY-FISHING. 



fly, and used it in a really artistic manner. If the 

 wind is blowing up, anglers will occasionally fish 

 up the pools (as for fishing up a strong stream 

 they never think of it) but even then they do 

 not do it properly, and meet with little better 

 success than if they had followed their usual 

 method. They will also, if going to some place 

 up a river, walk up, not fish up to it their plan 

 being to go to the top of a pool, and then fish it 

 down, never casting their line above them at all. 



We shall now mention in detail the advantages 

 of fishing up, in order to show its superiority over 

 the old method. 



The first and greatest advantage is, that the 

 angler is unseen by the trout. Trout, as is well 

 known, keep their heads up stream; they cannot 

 remain stationary in any other position. This 

 being the case, they see objects above and on both 

 sides of them, but cannot discern anything behind 

 them, so that the angler fishing down will be seen 

 by them twenty yards off, whereas the angler fish- 

 ing up will be unseen, although he be but a few 

 yards in their rear. The advantages of this it is 

 impossible to over-estimate. No creatures are 

 more easily scared than trout; if they see any 

 object moving on the river's bank, they run into 

 deep water, or beneath banks and stones, from 

 which they will not stir for some time. A bird 

 flying across .the water, or. the shadow of a rod, 

 will sometimes alarm them ; and nothing con- 



