68 ARTIFICIAL FLY-FISHING. 



apply to salmon and sea-trout fishing. Both these 

 fish lie in strong deep water, and as they are not 

 accustomed to feed upon flies, they are not on the 

 outlook for them ; so that if the salmon-fisher were 

 to throw his flies up stream, they would come down 

 at such a rate that the salmon would never see 

 them. Besides which, it is obvious that whatever 

 salmon take the angler's fly for, they cannot take it 

 for anything they have seen before, and therefore 

 there is no reason for supposing they can detect any- 

 thing unnatural in its motion. 



We have devoted this chapter principally to the 

 errors of fly-fishing as generally practised, and we 

 hope we have succeeded in convincing the reader of 

 the truth of our observations ; but as we have fre- 

 quently endeavoured in vain by viva voce demon- 

 stration to persuade anglers to fish up, we have no 

 doubt numbers will adhere to their own way. As 

 no amount of mere argument will convince such, we 

 offer to find two anglers, who, in a water suitable 

 for showing the superiority of fishing up, will be 

 more successful than any three anglers fishing down 

 after the ordinary method. 



We have just given the same reasons for fishing 

 up stream as in our first edition, because upon this 

 point there can be nothing new ; and are as ready 

 as ever to find anglers who are prepared to do battle 

 in their behalf, on the terms just stated ; but while 

 one or two have come forward to dispute the theory, 

 none have accepted our challenge and come forward 



