The Fishing of Rivers with the Wet Fly 97 



of trout. At other times one loses but few 

 trout fishing in this way. This generally 

 means that the wind is a moderate, but of 

 course an up-stream one, and the current 

 itself gentle ; for we have then a tolerably 

 fair chance of getting the rod's point raised 

 in time, and thus save each trout at the 

 first wild burst, which is not so easy to do 

 as it is to write about. 



I recall an incident which I men- 

 tioned in one of my papers in the Fishing 

 Gazette ? I was fishing the Deveron. The 

 keeper was with me all day (the only day 

 he ever was ; as his other duties tied him 

 down too closely to permit of such a thing, 

 save on the very rarest occasion). The 

 river was low, very low ; and the part of the 

 water I was fishing (for the first time) above 

 Turriff, was a good deal thrashed. 



I had done less than usual, when we 

 arrived at a spot where the waters rushed 

 down from the pool above, in a kind of 

 narrow, deep throat, thus causing an eddy 

 on either side, and gradually forming a nice 

 streamy pool. In no time, the water was 

 almost carpeted with a late hatch of March 

 Browns. The trout kept rising all over the 

 place, in their usual mad manner, when the 

 March Brown is in abundance. Of course 



