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of ail angler with rod and line upon the bank ; and 

 as nothing will familiarise them to such an appari- 

 tion, we draw the conclusion that that apparition had 

 better keep out of sight and fish up stream. More- 

 over, the fact that the natural food floats down is 

 anything but a reason that the artificial lure in imi- 

 tation of that food should be pulled up. 



We must confess, however, that fishing up stream 

 with fly has not been adopted by a large portion of 

 the angling community, and that for various reasons. 

 In spite of the strong manner in which, in our Prac- 

 tical Angler, we cautioned our readers about the 

 difficulties of fishing up stream, numbers who read 

 the arguments for it, and were struck with the sound- 

 ness of the theory, thought they saw at a glance the 

 cause of their previous want of success, and that in 

 future the result would be different. Having equipped 

 themselves a la Practical Angler, and even taken a copy 

 of that excellent work in their pockets, they started 

 with high hopes on their new career, but the result 

 was not different, and after one or two trials with no 

 better success, not a few have condemned fishing up 

 stream as erroneous and ourselves as impostors ; 

 though we imagine the fault lies with themselves. 

 We have met anglers fishing down stream and this 

 is no supposititious case, but one which we have seen 

 over and over again with a copy of this said volume 

 in their pockets, who complained that they had got 



