110 FISHING IN EDEN 



to contain the main worm supply, and the other to 

 carry a few for immediate use. Both should have 

 fresh damp sphagnum in them. 



In practising this somewhat special art of fishing 

 start at the bottom of your length, and, without 

 neglecting any of the streams, runs under banks and 

 walls, and bridges, or rippled, thin water at the 

 heads of streams, make haste in orderly fashion. 

 On dullish summer days the trout will be in the 

 neighbourhood of the streams. In hot glaring 

 weather many of them will be found in the thin- 

 water flats at the tops of the streams, and, if it 

 happens to be rippled, and one approaches it 

 properly, there sport will be good. 



Narrow, streamy glides past gravel beds, with 

 shady deeps on the far side, are ideal places. But 

 in approaching these on bright days, the thin water 

 within a foot of the edge should provide the first 

 cast. Supposing the thin edge to be on your right, 

 keep well below it, and cast directly up, only 

 allowing the gut cast, or even part of it, to touch 

 the water. Then follow with a cast to the left into 

 the middle of the run, and another right under the 

 deep, and perhaps, bushy bank. A horizontal, 

 forehand cast is best under such banks, the worm 

 should be placed well in, and the rod-point kept 

 down to clear the branches. This is generally a 



