38 APPROACHING THE WATER. 



angler, it is necessary to vary the process, and 

 that the object of fishing, even fly fishing, is to 

 catch the most in a fair manner. 



This sounds unanswerable; although the 

 lessee of a river may well take exception to the 

 statement and amend it by saying the object is 

 to so manage that he and his friends can 

 * expect to obtain an equal share of sport each 

 succeeding year without restocking.' 



To adopt dry fly fishing becomes therefore 

 in such a case a method of preserving somewhat 

 akin to the shooting of no hen pheasants during 

 the latter part of the season. With me the 

 pleasure of downstream fishing did not last : so 

 that while admitting all its difficulty, and the 

 greater water knowledge it undoubtedly shows, 

 as proved by the old hands doing so well, I 

 would advise all beginners to discard it after 

 their first two seasons and resolutely set their 

 backs to the sea and fish upstream on all days 

 when the wind renders it feasible. 



