STREAM-FISHING 105 



When the angler is compelled to fish down stream 

 he should cast obliquely across the water, and permit 

 the current to carry his flies round to the side on which 

 he is placed. His lures will not be perfectly successful 

 imitations of insects caught in the stream and deprived 

 of all power of voluntary motion, but they will probably 

 prove just as alluring as if they were. When he has 

 discovered what it is, he may find worthy of his con- 

 sideration the plan so artfully concealed in the following 

 cryptic words: — "Good fishing may be had by standing 

 well back from the river verofe or well back from the 

 lip of a steep bank and casting opposite your feet, with 

 three flies, and let them float down close under your 

 own bank, casting rapidly and rarely allowing your 

 flies to get below your stand-point." 



Should the angler who has conscientious objections 

 to dragging his fly against the current, or shrinks from 

 the awful charge of failing to observe good form, desire 

 to fish a sharp run immediately below him, he must 

 cast short and, dropping the point of his rod, confide 

 his line entirely to the water. If he acts with skill and 

 is careful that the speed at, and the direction in, which 

 his lure is travelling correspond exactly to those of a 

 natural fly similarly situated, he need not fear that the 

 suspicious trout will detect its unreality. 



