86 ANGLING. 



but will have to trust to his ear or to the sight of some 

 slight dimple on the water caused by the rise or the 

 slightest motion of the line for it need hardly be 

 remarked that if the angler can see the rise of the trout 

 the trout can see him. 



EDDY FISHING, with a small quill float and a wasp 

 grub, or a couple of gentles, caddis, or meal worm, or any 

 other grub, is often practised with great success when the 

 water is thick, a few fragments of bait being now and then 

 cast in to attract the fish. 



SINKING AND DRAWING, by tying a pair of wings on the 

 head of a hook, baiting the hook with a gentle or a caddis 

 or two or some other grub, biting a shot on the line, and then 

 casting it like a fly up stream, and raising and falling the 

 point of the rod as the bait comes down, so as to make it 

 rise and fall in the water, is another deadly method of 

 fishing. I never practice any of these methods myself, 

 for I think the trout deserves fairer treatment, but as 

 others do, and think no scorn of it, I am bound at the 

 least to mention them, though I do not enter at length on 

 them. Lastly comes 



SPINNING FOB TROUT. Pursued in large rivers like the 

 Thames the method followed differs very little from that 

 practised in pike fishing, save that you use a smaller and 

 lighter tackle, employ gut instead of gimp, and fish the 

 sharp turbulent streams instead of the dead reaches or 

 quiet eddies. In the days when trout fishing was worth 

 following in the Thames, it was a pretty sight to see an 

 adept spin a weir how, standing on the weir beam, with 

 a fierce stream, ready to swallow him up at the least false 

 step, at his feet, with scarcely an effort he pitched his bait 

 hither and thither, and worked it by some twist of the 

 wrist and knowledge of the eddies into and out of every 



