74 ARTIFICIAL FLY-FISHING. 



showed themselves to the trout, and then com- 

 menced to fish for them. 



44 The trout within yon wiraplin' burn, 



Glides swift, a silver dart ; 

 And safe beneath the shady thorn 

 Defies the angler's art." 



John Younger objects to this as incorrect, but 

 we rather think that Burns is right, and the angler 

 wrong ; as it is evident the poet alludes to a trout 

 that has caught sight of the angler, and safe he is 

 at least pro tern., as our pupils, who first frighten 

 the fish by walking down a pool-side and then 

 fish up it, will find to their cost. 



Others object to fishing up stream, as requiring 

 too frequent' casting, being too fatiguing, and be- 

 cause they have been accustomed to fish down, 

 and would prefer fishing in that way, even though 

 they do not catch so many trout. If any angler 

 prefers catching five pounds weight of trout fishing 

 down stream, to ten pounds weight fishing up, we 

 may wonder at his taste, but it is no concern of 

 ours. Our duty is to point out how most trout 

 can be captured in a given time ; and that is by 

 fishing up stream, and such is now the method 

 adopted by all the best fly-fishers of the day. 



Those anglers who have adopted fishing up 

 stream are principally those who were adepts in 

 the old system, and who were possessed of all the 

 nicety in casting and other knowledge so essential 

 to successful up-stream fishing. 



