TROUT FISHING 



May fly is available, for the water varies so much 

 as to afford abundance of scope for the use of 

 both ; but in this variety we find opportunity for 

 either principle, and of the two I may here de- 

 cidedly state that of deception alone isfar inferior 

 to the other I have designated excitement. I 

 must admit that though the reliance on that of 

 excitement is what I most confidently recommend,, 

 it will require some practical experience to bring 

 conviction home to the mind of the fisherman, and 

 at the first trial he will be led to think pure 

 deception superior, and for the reason that it is 

 easier at first to catch trout, especially large ones, 

 by the May fly than by the beetle, if the stream 

 is equally applicable to both ; perseverance and 

 energy will soon, however, bring sport to the 

 fisherman, and sooner or later he will discover the 

 truth of the assertion that on streams equally 

 applicable to both, the beetle is by far the superior 

 mode of fishing. 



To use the beetle we must adopt a particular 

 style of fishing. I have described the rod, collar, 

 and hook, and the putting on of the beetles 

 themselves ; I further said you must wade the 

 water. I had better have said you must walk up 

 stream through the water. If the river be of 

 sufficient size to permit it, I walk up through the 

 water and fish the sides under the bushes, behind 

 the stones, and in the little eddies and currents 

 directly above. This is very easily done, and it 

 is a most killing way of fishing, especially where 

 the banks are very bushy, and hence the water by 



