STREAM-FISHING 101 



The angler is not always free to choose the direction 

 in which he will fish ; it is sometimes d'erei-'rfi^n^ii for. 

 him by the wind. When that is adver^e.'.tjCKup^sti'dsitfii 

 fishing, he must perforce fish down. Occasionally he 

 may be able to effect a compromise and fish up and 

 across, but when the wind blows violently down stream 

 he must bow to the conditions it imposes — or refrain 

 from fishing, If the water pursue a winding course he 

 will probably find an occasional stretch on which the 

 wind is favourable to up-stream fishing, and in that case 

 it has been suggested that he should confine himself 

 "to such bends or reaches which [sic) are negotiable." 

 He will be unwise if he does, unless, which is unlikely, 

 these suffice to keep him in occupation during the entire 

 day. By all means let him fish up, where the wind is 

 accommodating enough to permit him, but he will be 

 foolish to neglect the intervening water and sacrifice his 

 sport to an idea. Even when he is given a choice, there 

 are conditions under which he may, without hesitation, 

 fish down ; conditions, indeed, under which a too rigid 

 adherence to what has, with ridiculous inaptitude, been 

 called good /orm, will render unavailing his purpose on 

 the stream. When the water is high and discoloured, 

 there is no reason in the world why he should exhaust 

 himself by labouring against it. If, even in such cir- 



