78 FLIES AND FLY FISHING. 



following the bait, spin steadily on, neither faster nor 

 slower than before, if he does not take try for him 

 immediately again, with your bait travelling through all 

 the same water that it did in your first spin. Never try 

 more than twice for the same fish. 



"When the fish takes the minnow I always strike, but 

 not the jerky sharp strike of the fly rod. Immediately 

 you feel him, raise the rod's point firmly up and hold 

 the fish very hard and severely for a moment before 

 playing him, which you must do according to the way 

 he is hooked. A trout w r hen badly hooked with the 

 minnow almost invariably springs out of the water, and 

 makes higher leaps than he often does when hooked with 

 fly. When fishing very thickly- wooded streams you often 

 come to a fall with a rapid stream flowing below it, and 

 continuing rapid water some distance; the bushes will 

 just admit of your getting to the head of the fall, but it 

 is too deep to wade any further down. You are also 

 unable to work this place (which is sure to be a likely 

 one) from below. Having fished just below the fall in the 

 usual way, throw the minnow into the rough water and 

 let it go down slowly with the stream to the end of the 

 rapid water, in its descent you must work it with the rod, 

 and then bring it slowly up against stream, trying first 



