98 Fly-Fi/hmg. 



then, that on the day in queftion for the firft two 

 hours, if I had one " rife" I may fay I had confi- 

 derably more than two hundred, and only landed 

 fome twenty trout. The ftream, which is very 

 rapid, and the wind, were dead againft me. Con- 

 fequently before my flies touched the water, they 

 curled in towards me with the whole collar ; and 

 ftrike as you may in fuch a cafe, it is not of the 

 flighteft ufe : generally fpeaking, if you do hook a 

 trout, you have to thank his voracioufnefs for it, 

 not your Ikill. The beft plan, I believe, to adopt 

 under fuch untoward circumftances, is to throw 

 underhand with as fhort a line as pofiible, and al- 

 ways at the oppofite fide of the ftream in the flack 

 water. 



Such a lively fet I never before had the pleafure 

 to fall in with as thefe fame trout of the Grwyne 

 Fawr ; the firft caft in a likely pool, and you are 

 fure to have half-a-dozen candidates for the tempt- 

 ing morfel before their eyes. And yet fo nimble 

 are they and quick- figh ted, that they detect the 

 cheat within a hair's breadth of their ruin, give 

 one little tug at the hackle, (moft probably,) and 

 you fee them no more. 



Sometimes, it is true, when they turn away thus 

 in difguft, flapping the falfe thing ycleped a fly with 



