84 FLIES AND FLY FISHING. 



Roach. Will take a fly sometimes, but they show no 

 sport. In streams they may be fished for in the same 

 way as dace, but in slow gliding water the best plan is to 

 lead a small fly, as described for chub, and let it sink 

 very deep, and then draw it rather slowly up to the 

 surface. 



Perch. I believe in some places perch are sometimes 

 taken with a fly, and abroad I have killed a few 

 although only small ones, but in England I have never 

 succeeded in taking or even rising a single fish, although 

 I have very often tried for them ; if the large ones 

 would take fly they ought to show good sport. 

 Pike. On all waters where there are rushes at the 

 sides, in which aquatic birds make their nests, pike can 

 be fished for with the fly, and a large pike on a salmon 

 rod is very good sport. I once had one over twenty 

 pounds on Lough Corrib in Ireland. 



The fly should be cast into the rushes, and then 

 worked directly towards you by short quick pulls, raising 

 and sinking the top of the rod. 



The fly is taken by the pike in all probability for 

 the young of water-fowl, and the things generally made 

 and sold for pike flies, all tinsel, peacock's feathers and 

 glass beads, are no attempt at imitating these. Take a 



