162 TROUT FISHING 



like the similitude of the little rapid brook, only 

 that in the big stream the killing spots are further 

 distant from one another. Now the fisherman, 

 failing in the still water with the maggot, is driven 

 to the rapids ; in fishing these down streams, he 

 discovers that the maggot on the fly makes such 

 a clumsy appearance, and causes such an eddy of 

 water on either side of it from the opposition 

 afforded to the current, that he is obliged to throw 

 either directly up stream, or at least with a con- 

 siderable obliquity in that direction. Here then 

 he makes an approach to the style I recommend 

 for small stream fishing in bright water. He 

 meets with success when thus fishing with the 

 maggot, and attributes the cause simply to the 

 maggot, because the maggot is the only difference 

 he has made in his bait ; true, but had he not put 

 on a maggot, in what manner would he have 

 fished these rapids in the bright summer months ? 

 Why, in the same manner as he would have fished 

 the pools in spring, down stream, with long line, 

 and a long collar floating about over the surface 

 of the water. Now, however, he is fishing up 

 stream with a short line ; and this is the main 

 source of his success. It may please his imagina- 

 tion to refer it to the maggot, and so give him 

 greater confidence in its usage ; but unconsciously 

 to himself he has altered entirely his system, and 

 now is working with a conspicuous object, thrown 

 immediately over the trout, rendered lively by the 

 force of water and the direction of his cast, which 

 stimulates the trout to rush at it. He is thus 



