<3 FLIES AND FLY FISHING. 



ing again over a fish, that has risen short, but covering 

 fresh water at each throw ; then, having reached the 

 bottom, I walk up again to the top, and fish it again 

 down foot by foot ; by doing this, all the fish that you 

 missed the first time are ready to rise again, and I am 

 certain that it is a far more successful plan with grayling 

 than delaying over every shy fish. 



There is one circumstance well known to those who are 

 in the habit of fishing for loth trout and grayling that a 

 very good day for one kind of fish is generally a bad one 

 for the other ; for this I am unable to give any satisfactory 

 reason. 



Small flies are generally used for grayling, and, as a 

 rule, they are best ; but it is a great mistake to suppose 

 that medium sized ones will not kill. They take the 

 February red, female yellow dun, brown owl, and one or 

 two other large flies well. If they never went at anything 

 large, the grasshopper bait would not kill as it does. 

 There is one habit of these fish that is at times most 

 annoying : all at once the water wih 1 be alive with them, 

 rising in every direction, and this continues for half-an- 

 hour or more. You watch, but cannot discover that they 

 are taking any flies, and they will not have anything to 

 say to you, offer them what you will ; in this case they 



