CLEAR WATER WORM FISHING 111 



very deadly cast, and often finds the haunt of an 

 extra large trout or two. 



Rivers flowing in a southerly direction are 

 difficult to fish in the sunny summer months. 

 Fishing them down exposes you to the upward 

 glance of the trout, and fishing upstream shows 

 the tell-tale shadows of both moving rod and 

 standing fisherman. 



Even the Eamont, which I know so well, is much 

 more difficult to fish than the northerly flowing 

 Eden. It leaves Ullswater flowing almost directly 

 east. Fishing it up from the point at which it 

 enters the Eden the morning sun is mainly at your 

 back, with a gradual veer to your left side. But it 

 is very woody, and runs below deepish banks. 

 Some of its beautiful streams run under archways 

 of tree branches, with the sun only striking the 

 water in dazzling patches. These bowered river 

 groves are delightful places to fish on sunny June 

 and July days. Wading up them you are in a very 

 fairy-land of colour. 



Such glades can be fished unseen, but, to the 

 fisherman with the seeing eye, Nature is fully 

 revealed in these solitudes. For it lives all 

 undisturbed, excepting by the man in waders. The 

 birds flit about and around you without that kind of 

 fear they exhibit in the open country, and the trout 



