94 FLOATING FLIES 



a rising trout. The visible rise of a trout al- 

 ways appears in the nature of a challenge, and 

 my inability to get away from a place where I 

 positively know a good trout is located has fre- 

 quently resulted in my return with a pretty 

 light creel. When casting over a pool, no 

 matter how good, while fishing all the water, 

 lack of success eventually breeds a doubt as to 

 the presence of a trout therein; anglers going 

 before may have temporarily fished it out or 

 for some other reason, the pool may be barren 

 at the time. 



But when casting over a rising trout every- 

 thing is certain and well-defined. You know 

 where the fish is located, or at least where he 

 came up ; you generally have a pretty fair idea 

 of his size; if duly observant you can guess 

 closely to what sort of natural fly the fish rose, 

 everything is sure save the eventual capture of 

 that particular trout. You are fairly certain 

 that if the right fly is put over the fish in the 

 right way success will follow. It is up to you. 



To cast with some understanding to a rising 

 trout, it is very necessary that the angler be 

 somewhat familiar with the habits of the fish 

 when feeding upon the floating insect and also 

 be fairly conversant with the life histories of 

 what may be termed the fishing flies. That 



