74 FISHING IN EDEN 



searching of the water, and if each quick cast had 

 been able to leave visible marks on the surface 

 there would have been seen radiating lines from his 

 stance to a semicircle above him, which would here 

 gradually, as he advanced, bulge to the right across 

 the whole top of the glide. 



Above the middle of the glide he would probably 

 hook a still stronger fish, and, with his rod-point 

 up, let it rush down under steady pressure into the 

 stream below, making use of the rush with a quiet, 

 even strain on the line. In a moment or two the 

 semicircle above would be completed below by the 

 trout, before it quite knew what was happening, and 

 owing largely to its own impetus, finding itself on 

 the dry gravel bed. In the glide aboy.e all would 

 still be quite serene. 



His attention would now be paid to the deep, 

 farther, right-hand edge of the glide, which he would 

 naturally expect to be held by some sturdy old 

 monopolist. Quietly moving forward, and prepar- 

 ing himself with a few preliminary casts, he would 

 finally drop his flies over this best-feed run. If 

 fortune was with him there would ensue, on the part 

 of a still bigger trout, a rapid rush down the 

 heaviest part of the stream. This time the reel 

 would sing, but not like a bicycle over which control 

 had been lost. The guiding hand and turning body 



