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pulled out of their mouths but is probably 

 jerked against the corner of the jaw where it 

 takes a firm hold. And lastly the angler is 

 below the fish, able to pull him or rather guide 

 him down with the current instead of having 

 the stream adding its weight to the trout's 

 struggles. How well indeed do large grayling 

 appreciate this advantage, running downstream 

 and setting their broad back fin athwart the fast 

 running water until the angler has to hurry 

 after them with an almost slack line or else risk 

 the break which inevitably follows should a 

 strand of 3 x gut be taken through a bed of 

 weed by an experienced two pounder. 



For fivers which in Spring seldom run quite 

 clear and which make their way through red 

 earth or rich loam, receiving at intervals the 

 contents of ditches by the side of ploughed 

 fields, upstream wet fly fishing is probably the 

 most deadly form of angling leaving worms 

 and minnows out of the question but in the 

 chalk streams of Hampshire and Wilts where 

 the water runs over a grey-white bottom and 

 is often as clear as Apollinaris, and not unlike 

 it in brilliant sparkle, the dry fly process leaves 

 any other far behind. To the question of the 

 novice * What is dry fly fishing, and how does 

 it differ from any other kind of angling"? the 

 answer is simple. In the first place it consists 

 of trying to induce a particular fish already 

 noticed as having risen at surface flies to be 

 deceived into taking an artificial which floats 

 over him, sitting as it were upon the water 



