DOWN STREAM UP STREAM DRY FLY. 21 



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DOWN STREAM-UP STREAM- 

 DRY FLY. 



LET us suppose the time is Easter, which 

 embraces the entire month of April. It 

 is not too late for downstream fishing, 

 land should you not as yet have learnt to 

 throw a fly upstream well, it may be your only 

 alternative, particularly if the water be rather 

 full and coloured. Even for downstream fishing 

 it is best to use a tapered cast as far less likely 

 to tangle, while the old-fashioned flies tied on 

 gut will save you trouble and perhaps be more 

 effective. To give yourself every encouragement 

 fish as far as you can with the wind behind 

 you, so that the least effort is necessary for 

 switching the flies on to the water. You have 

 put on say a red-upright tail fly and an iron- 

 blue as a dropper, both plain hackle. Cast 

 them well out at right angles to the bank or 

 slightly down stream and allow the current to 

 carry them round in a semi-circle until they 

 come almost to rest under your own bank. If 

 the stream is fairly fast and you feel a tug 

 hold the rod steady, and nine times out of ten 

 the fish will hook himself. Some anglers say 



