CHAPTEK VI. 



DIPPING OR NATURAL FLY-FISHING. 



Dipping Rod for Weather and Water for Dipping-Baits Green 

 and Grey Drake Flies Stone-Fly Blue-Bottle House-Fly 

 Wood-FlyGrasshoppers Beetles Method of Dipping Fishing 

 with the Natural Fly in Open Water. 



DIPPING with the natural fly is a method of fishing 

 well adapted to the droughts of summer, when the 

 waters are fine and low, and when the majority of the 

 trout have retired from the streams and shallows to the 

 deep and shady pools, where they can lie in quietness 

 and security, screened from the fierce rays of the sun. 

 And it can only be successfully practised in a dead 

 calm and on such waters as are fringed by overhanging 

 trees and bushes, which not only form a harbour for the 

 fish, but also serve to conceal the dipper from observa- 

 tion during his operations. 



It will be found not only a very quiet and agreeable 

 method of sporting beneath the cool and refreshing 

 shadow of some tangled wood maybe the favourite re- 

 treat of some beauteous nymphs during the broiling heats 

 of a tropical day but also a very successful plan for pro- 

 curing a dish of fish, when all other efforts are futile. 

 And thus the enthusiastic sportsman may enjoy a 

 few pleasant hours' diversion, in place of sipping cider 



