56 FISHING IN EDEN 



not much eatin' on them. But ah's pleased to see 

 yev takken nea smelts. Live and let live's a good 

 motto, and wi' mun remember t' salmon fishers." 



At our feet was a gently flowing pool fed by a 

 strong rough stream from above. This stream was 

 skirted on our side by a high grassy bank, between 

 which, and the strong middle stream, ran a quiet 

 dark flat for a length of about eighty yards. On 

 the opposite bank, in the inner bend of the river, 

 was a long gravel bed, skirting both the pool below 

 and the stream above. 



As we sat eating our lunch we noticed odd trout 

 just pricking the surface of this stream-flat. In a 

 few minutes a big rise of March Browns came on 

 below the bank sheltering the flat, and it was soon 

 alive with rising trout. I wanted at once to be up 

 and at them, but " Bob's " reply was that there was 

 too much of a rise there for fish to see any odd fly we 

 could drop amongst them. He said, however, that 

 it would be well for him to cross and try them, but 

 that, first of all, he would substitute a Partridge and 

 Orange for his Light Snipe tail fly. 



On taking off the Snipe he put it carefully back 

 in his book, remarking that he did not believe in the 

 lazy fashion of sticking odd flies in his hat. " It's 

 a way o' spoilen good gut." He then waded over 

 to the other side, at a place where it would have been 



