CHAPTEE IV. 



FLIES AND CASTING-LINES. 



THLIES. Here we shall no doubt come into 

 -*- conflict with many opinions, and most 

 probably meet with the most criticism. How- 

 ever, as all we have written, and mean to 

 write, is the result of actual experience, we 

 may be pardoned for being somewhat dogmatic 

 on the subject in hand. In the first place, 

 don't keep a large stock of flies. If going for 

 a day's fishing, buy as many as you think 

 you'll need, and no more. Buy them of differ- 

 ent sizes ; and if you get a few each time you 

 go for an outing, you will be astonished how 

 soon a spare stock accumulates. Ascertain 

 carefully beforehand the size suitable to the 

 loch the kinds are not of so much import- 

 ance and once you have made up a cast, in 



