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your drop fly round one of the knots in the casting- 

 line, and pass the drop through the loop thus bent 

 and draw it tight. The drop fly will thus stand at 

 right angles with the casting-line, and should be 

 about 3in. from it, and the trout will not be likely to 

 come in contact with the line when seizing the fly. 



It does not very often happen that you hook two 

 trout at a time, and after you have hooked them, 

 the difficulty is to get them both into the landing- 

 net, as they dart about in divers directions ; but I 

 succeeded in hooking and landing two at a time on 

 three occasions in the summer of 1881. In such 

 cases get the fish on the stretcher into the net first. 

 Two at a time necessitates good tackle and very 

 careful handling. When one can accomplish this 

 difficult feat, with two trout of a pound weight each, 

 he may consider himself a fly-fisher. 



Artificial flies should represent, in size, shape, and 

 colour, as nearly as possible the natural flies which 

 frequent the water you are fishing. 



On examining the following selection it will be found 

 that the natural flies are chiefly represented by three 

 colours green, yellow, and brown ; and, although 

 Mr. Pennell was so far right, the general appearance 

 of natural flies must also be imitated, if you would 

 achieve success. I do not hold it necessary to follow 

 minutely every colour, or the exact shape of the 

 natural fly, because nine out of every ten fish caught 

 seize the fly immediately it alights on the water, and 

 sometimes even before it touches ; therefore they 

 cannot have time to study very particularly every 

 detail of the lure thus suddenly presented to them, 

 but, seeing something apparently resembling what 



