104 FISHING IN EDEN 



be found basking in the thin rippling water at the 

 heads and sides of streams, as well as under the 

 banks. The worm was thrown with a shortish line 

 into all the likely places above me, and immediately 

 it stopped, or there was a slight pull, striking began. 

 In this way the nefarious art if the qualifying word 

 is preferred was acquired, and several neighbour- 

 ing frying-pans began to do their duty again, in 

 spite of blazing sun and brown hillsides. 



" Bob " was right. The fine weather held up 

 during the whole of that long holiday. Distant 

 thunder was occasionally heard from the fells, and 

 odd showers could be seen travelling along their tops, 

 but they all passed away like mountain mist in a 

 wind, without adding a drop to the parched river 

 feeders below. 



Clear water worm fishing undoubtedly depends 

 for its success on a sound working knowledge of 

 the ways of trout in times of low water, and on quick 

 fishing of the suitable reaches. The slow order of 

 fishermen will never fill panniers. Wading up- 

 stream and passing smartly from one suitable reach 

 to another requires a good deal of exertion, and one 

 seldom finds a fisherman who is prepared to go the 

 pace required under a broiling sun. 



What makes this kind of fishing so deadly, when 

 practised by the fisherman who is acquainted with 



