CREEPER AND STONE-FLY FISHING 85 



taken with this bait. By some anglers it is much 

 preferred to the stone-fly. It is tougher and needs 

 less careful and skilled casting than the fly, and the 

 range of suitable water is greater. 



The creeper is fished in the strong streams, and 

 the rougher these streams are the better. The 

 rapid runs under banks, by the sides of gravel beds, 



Stone Fly. 



Creeper. 



are always very deadly places. If the water 

 happens to be fairly full when the creeper is on its 

 precarious, and often slow, way to dry land, the 

 edges of the river are the places to fish. 



This was the case when I fished the Eamont at 

 Whitsuntide last year. After fishing up about a 

 mile and a half I came across two men in the middle 

 of the water, also using creeper. On being asked 

 how they were getting on one of them said, " Very 



