The best places to fish in any river are 

 usually not where there are the most fish, 

 but where they can be most easily caught. 

 These places are moderately rapid runs ; 

 scours, or " stickles," where the water is of 

 a medium depth, and carries a brisk ripple 

 or curl ; pools with a sharp current through 

 them ; and mill-tails, weirs, and eddies. 



Deep, stagnant, lagoon-like reaches can 

 only be fished with success when there is 

 a good breezy ripple on them. 



Water that is thickened is always bad. 

 It prevents the fish seeing the flies on the 

 top, and brings down with it ground-food, 

 which fixes their attention on the bottom. 

 The presence of any large number of nat- 

 ural flies on the water is bad. 



When the fishing season is over, your 

 rod should be cleaned, oiled, and put away 

 in a cool place, in readiness for the next 

 campaign. The best of wood that a rod 

 can be composed of, if exposed for a 

 length of time in a dry atmosphere, will 

 shrink. All lines, after being used, should 

 be run off from the reel and laid out, or 



