42 FLIES AND FLY FISHIXG. 



handle about four feet long, and it should be as light as 

 possible. Always remember to kill your fish close under the 

 edge of the corricle, on the right side, if possible, and with 

 your rod bearing hard over to the other side or you will 

 probably come to grief. This would be a delightful mode 

 of fishing if the corricle could be made a steadier convey- 

 ance, Avithout increasing its size or making it too heavy to 

 be easily carried, but it is such an exceedingly ricketty 

 affair, that, even when you are quite a proficient in its use, 

 you never are at all comfortable in it, it cramps one so 

 much, and it requires constant practice ; you very soon 

 loso the knack of managing them, and if you have not 

 heen in one for some time, you do not feel at home in 

 them however good a hand in their management you 

 might once have been. When you can fill and light your 

 pipe, or change your flies without upsetting, you are all 

 right. But always be careful how you embark. 



