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yet done sufficient justice to the pleasure of 

 fly-fishing for coarse fish. Many of them 

 describe it in detail with full instructions, 

 but they all seem to regard it as something 

 inferior and subordinate to trout -fishing, 

 whereas, in my opinion, it is an entirely 

 separate branch of the art and entitled to 

 quite as much respect. It has, moreover, 

 the advantage of being at its best when 

 trout-fishing is at its worst ; and it has yet 

 another advantage over trout-fishing in that 

 it is less practised and yet far more easily 

 obtained. I have often wondered why so 

 few fly-fishermen take it seriously. There 

 must be many busy men who, able only to 

 take their holiday in July and August, rush 

 away to Wales or Devonshire for fly-fishing. 

 They get little sport as is to be expected 

 in rivers which are probably low, and which 

 have been fished hard and often in the 

 spring months and they are disappointed. 

 Were they to apply their skill to the de- 

 spised coarse fish, their sport would almost 

 certainly be quite good enough to satisfy 

 them. 



The coarse fish that take a fly best are 

 roach, rudd, dace, and chub, in an ascending 



