no BY MEADOW AND STREAM. 



After a careful examination of the water, and 

 catching innumerable floating flies, in the morning, 

 the Professor came to the decision that the Iron Blue 

 was the proper imitation to tempt the grayling. 

 " Red Spinner" began and ended his successful out- 

 ing with a Red Tag, an imitation which has no proto- 

 type on land or water, but which seemed to have a 

 natural attraction for the grayling quite remarkable. 

 I have seen them repeatedly allow the true natural 

 Iron Blue to pass over their noses, and go for the Red 

 Tag to their destruction. 



The Major, I think, varied his flies, but did best 

 with Iron Blue. 



I placed myself under the wing of our good Pro- 

 fessor, who rendered me all sorts of kindnesses, not 

 only selecting my flies, but tying them on for me for 

 my eyes are not what they were. He kept a sharp 

 look-out for rises. " There you are, just over that 

 clump of weeds. Now cast a couple of yards above 

 him, and let your fly float down over him, and you'll 

 have that fish to a dead certainty. Ah, you've got 

 him ! Hold on, keep the point of your rod up, and 

 don't let him get below you. Oh ! he's off; I told 

 you so, you held him too tight, you should have given 

 him more line, and not let him get below you. "Why, 

 man, he was a two-pounder, and no gut could stand 

 the strain of pulling hard against fish and stream ; 

 never mind, better luck next time." 



That important question of casting over a fish is 

 one upon which these experts differ. Our Professor 

 waxes quite wroth if you put your fly just over, or a 

 few inches above your fish. 



