84 BLANK DAYS. 



bepricked trout is to so quickly take a hair of 

 the dog that bit him one must imagine him 

 saying " Well I did enjoy that lacerating tweak 

 that has loosened my tongue : I really did, and 

 I will dally on the top of the water just where 

 it occurred in hopes of getting another taste 

 or at least of being caught in the loins or 

 the eye." 



With a played out grayling such a process 

 might be possible no doubt it has been done 

 as I have cast for and foul hooked a water rat 

 but with a trout, never. 



Still better if on a well thrashed Association 

 water make a point of walking up the right 

 bank geography books still persist in telling 

 you it is the left bank and cast with your left 

 hand in the same manner getting the fly well 

 under the long overhanging grasses. On 

 scores of occasions you may find such a bank 

 unoccupied even in a May fly week and can 

 pitch your evening camp there undisturbed. 

 If you have practised for a short time every 

 day left hand casting comes simple enough in 

 two seasons; while in three or more it is no 

 trouble whatever excepting against a wind, 

 when the extra twitch of the right hand is 

 needed to cut the fly on to the water. 



As a blank day cure in Summer I know of 

 no plan better than this one especially if the 

 casts be made parallel to the water, of course 

 from a kneeling position, thus assisting the fly 

 to visit those small bays and inlets which are 

 partially arched over with the tufts that have 



