Fishing the Rough Waters 

 entirely proper, but advisable, for the 

 American angler to fish the stream in- 

 stead of fishing the rise, the proposi- 

 tion may be advanced confidently that 

 the dry-fly is almost as tempting in lur- 

 ing trout from more or less swift, rough 

 water, as it is in taking them from the 

 pools. All who have been on trout 

 streams can remember many places 

 where there are barriers formed by a 

 row or group of rocks in the centre of 

 the stream, the tops of some of them 

 rising above the surface, others entirely 

 covered. The swift water comes rush- 

 ing down upon one of these barriers, 

 over the rocks, between them, and 

 around them. Above and below the 

 rocks are splendid lurking places for 

 feeding fish. We approach one of these 

 groups of rocks carefully from down- 

 stream, and cast our fly at one side of 

 the rocks and below them, allowing it 



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