ON RAPID STREAMS. 167 



that al though, we may at times on large streams 

 kill larger fish and more in number than we could 

 with the artificial fly alone, yet, nevertheless, the 

 smaller and more rapid streams are those, par ex- 

 cellence, which we should select for the maggot to 

 do the greatest execution in low and bright 

 water. 



To put the maggot on the hook : hold it be- 

 tween the fore-finger and thumb of your left hand, 

 with its obtuse end uppermost ; take the stretcher 

 fly between your right fore-finger and thumb, enter 

 its point in the centre of the obtuse end of the 

 maggot, pass it down through its entire body, and 

 bring it out at the extreme end or point forming 

 the apex of which the obtuse end is the base of 

 the cone which the maggot's figure naturally 

 represents. 



