The Fishing of Waters with the Wet Fly 43 



all taking place in one brief second, surely 

 furnish a picturesque parallel. Lord 

 Byron's lines on the blooming and blush- 

 ing schoolgirl arise to my mind, and seem 

 not inappropriate. 



" So much alarmed, that she is quite alarming.* 



But the trout, which has stopped your wet 

 fly in strong water, makes no such rise, and 

 must be hooked before he has had time to 

 eject your lure. Hence the need of a short 

 line, and of a ready and responsive hand. 



In the few lines which I have given to 

 that small but good handbook, "How to 

 catch Trout," mention was made of " that 

 piece of water just above where a stream 

 breaks, " and so forth. 



This is a favourite place with me, as 

 with the Three Anglers who wrote that 

 book. 



Just where the waters of a pool, or 

 gentle stream, begin to be sucked down 

 into the rapids below, there is often a 

 portion, smooth-surfaced but not very slow- 

 running, called the "hang," where the 

 waters seem to pause ere they make their 

 plunge below ; and here (especially if a 

 breeze ruffles the surface) some good trout 

 should be picked up. 



