The Fishing of Rivers with the Wet Fly 101 



with some surprise at their size, but I trust 

 he has often had good reason to thank me 

 for my introduction to the tiny " doubles." 

 Had I used the same small flies, where the 

 March Browns were in their thousands, I 

 would not have benefited. The trout would 

 have passed them by, scornfully. 



The real turning-point that day was 

 just as I have indicated. 



Then came the intuitive feeling that I 

 must use quite small flies ; and I succeeded. 

 I think I hear some reader say, " What a 

 'pow-wow' about 12 Ibs. of trout." Well! 

 there was nothing very great in that, I 

 admit ; a very ordinary basket, but not on 

 that day. 



It is worth recording all the same ; 

 though I wish to observe that such tactics 

 are by no means to be made the rule. 



I have a great difficulty in tearing 

 myself away from free-rising trout. They 

 fascinate me, I think. And it was only 

 by a mighty effort, therefore, that I found 

 myself at the pool below where so few trout 

 were feeding, every one of which, however, 

 was a taking fish, if well fished for. They 

 had not known surfeit that day. 



The moral of the story amounts to this. 



Suppose you come upon a regular surfeit 



