FLY FISHING FOE TKOUT. 109 



more on minnows, shrimp, and larva than flies, sink your fly. 

 As general directions, these will be found pretty reliable. 

 Though I do not like night fishing, and indeed would 

 never allow it on any good water, yet you go at times to 

 places where it is practised, and where your only chance 

 of catching a good fish is at night. Fish by sight if you 

 can, that is, if the light shines enough on the water to 

 detect the circles made by the rise ; but if you cannot see, 

 then you must fish down, and, keeping a tight line, fish by 

 feeling the rise, and you cannot be too quick in your 

 strike when you do feel a touch, as the trout reject the 

 fly as quickly as they take it ; but it is pokey work at the 

 best. You fish with a short line and a stout ; you cannot 

 see where your fish is going, and you hang on and get him 

 out anyhow. There is no nicety in throwing, and if you 

 happen to be wading, and you do not make any disturb- 

 ance, the fish will rise within a yard of you. 



