The Typical Chalk Stream 



upon some of our American streams he 

 would soon give up his idea of fishing 

 only the rise, and would begin to fish 

 the stream. 



A study of many pictures of the 

 well-known English chalk streams leads 

 me to believe that it is the character 

 of the streams themselves that makes 

 his method feasible and also natural. 

 To make a mental picture of a typical 

 English chalk stream, recall in your 

 mind one of our little country brooks, 

 winding gently through a flat meadow, 

 and then enlarge it several times. 

 Many photographs of English chalk 

 streams show long, broad stretches of 

 smooth water. Within the purist's vi- 

 sion, as he stands upon the bank scan- 

 ning carefully the stream, are some- 

 times many hundreds of feet of this 

 placid water, and to one who has 

 studied photographs of these streams, 



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