Angling 131 



Up and Down Stream. "I fish up stream (and I 

 think this best) and down stream and across stream 

 according to wind and time and weather, etc., and the 

 sun. I have found I can get the larger fish in upstream 

 fishing; but there are pools one can't get the flies to 

 the likely places from below, nor yet from either side. 

 When I come to such a pool I get above and cover it 

 well by casting across stream from me the sun being 

 opposite and let my flies float down, drawing them 

 the while across current with a twitching motion, as 

 an insect struggling to swim across. It is a deadly 

 method if well done and gets the big ones too. I hold 

 the line of course in my left hand, and as I gently 

 raise the rod with my right, I take in line with my 

 left, thus at all times having full control and ready for 

 a strike. " Ernest L. Eubank. 



Fly-Fishing First. " Fly-fishing comes first, then 

 comes bait casting with the fly rod; third, still fishing; 

 fourth, casting of live bait with the short rod from the 

 reel, and last, if not entirely without the pale of true 

 sportsmanship, the use of the plug. " Rayx. 



Fly Rod and Bait Rod. "It takes some skill to 

 keep sixty feet of line in the air when fly casting, and 

 requires free space for the back cast. It is fascinating 

 work and requires more delicacy in handling a fly rod 

 than a bait rod. The fly rod, especially in Southern 

 Missouri waters, lands more fish during the day than 

 the bait rod, but the latter lands larger fish. The bait 

 caster makes fewer casts on account of reeling in the 

 line after each cast, but the water is more effectively 

 covered. One has to be a judge of the water and 

 determine which method should be used. In the 



