RIVER FLY-FISHING. 



There has been much excellent writing devoted 

 to describing How, When, and Where to fish for 

 Trout in rivers and streams ; and this is one 

 reason want of space^another why I shall not 

 go very minutely into those questions. It seems 

 doubtful also whether anglers, as a rule, read, or if 

 they read, remember so as to derive practical 

 benefit from the detailed maxims and rules laid 

 down on these subjects. 



With regard to particular states of the atmo- 

 sphere, for instance, some writers think the presence 

 of ozone in a greater or a less proportion may 

 probably make one day more favourable than 

 another for fly-fishing. But what then ? Nine 

 men out of ten fish just the same, and make 

 the best basket they can, whether they know, or 

 think they know, the day to be good or bad ; 

 whilst as to " Where" to fish in any particular 

 river, the only really available knowledge is to 

 be gained by experience, and the most general 

 instructions are all that can be given or recol- 

 lected. 



Again, as regards the " How." The proper 

 movement of a fly-rod is very difficult to de- 



