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filler and make a feature of a turbid spring 

 water, when trout will occasionally come to a 

 downstream cast and its three flies in a way 

 that proves this process to be the most killing 

 lure. Even with this method great individualism 

 is shown. There is far more in it than the dry 

 fly purist can ever imagine : let him try it fot 

 a week and he will be quite convinced when he 

 comes to compare baskets with the native cracks. 

 One man at the end of an hour has his two or 

 three brace while another has nothing to show, 

 due perhaps to the former keeping more out of 

 sight of the fish which are of course all facing 

 the angler. 



Some men are quite annoyed at the thought 

 that the fish can see them, and plainly state 

 that if they cannot walk as they please without 

 stooping and crawling they prefer to wait for 

 a thicker water and use a minnow. Many others 

 agfain, either of an antiquated, lazy, or unedu- 

 cated school, rarely attempt up stream fishing 

 at all. They can fill their basket to over- 

 flowing on their own particular days in March 

 and April and after that they simply do not go 

 out. Such niceties as bothering about a proper 

 approach to the water are beneath their dignity, 

 or are regarded much as the old farmer, 

 accustomed to plain cattle shed stuff, expressed 

 himself on the subject of artificial manures when 

 he said he didn't believe in putting pinches of 

 snuff into wheatfields. 



I know the argument that to be a good all 

 round angler, or a good all round the year 



