NIGHT FLY AND BUSTARD FISHING 93 



If the spring is warm and fine, without any cold 

 floods, creepers are often to be found in trout by 

 the middle of April. When this is the case the fly 

 fisherman begins to shake his head, and tells you 

 that he knows why he has not been doing so well 

 as he expected. 



A cold, wet spring retards the migration of the 

 creepers. The water is too heavy for successful 

 movements landwards, and its temperature probably 

 not high enough to give sufficient strength to the 

 instinctive, annual impulse. But, whether the 

 spring is warm or cold, as soon as the trout get a 

 mouthful of either the nymph or fly they will not pay 

 much further attention to the small, artificial flies 

 that are cast over them. 



Then it is that the local anglers, at any rate, start 

 their night fishing. Many of them use the small 

 day-time flies during the whole of the night fishing 

 season, which lasts, at its very best, until the end 

 of June. Commencing at dusk they confine their 

 attention to the flattish water at the tails of streams, 

 and to places where there is a long, deepish stretch 

 approachable by easy wading from one shallowing 

 side. 



Every fisherman of this kind has his favourite 

 night haunt, and sometimes two or three of similar 

 taste will fish the same piece of water, perhaps not 



