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few fish in any mill-pool when the rise 

 is on. 



Evening fishing is quite straightforward. 

 One puts on one or two flies and simply 

 casts at the spot where one imagines the 

 fish to be. If one is casting on the shallows 

 below a weir the flies may be worked 

 salmon-fashion, that is to say, cast straight 

 across the river and allowed to work down 

 and across stream. If one is fishing in the 

 open river, they should be cast under the 

 opposite bank and drawn slowly away from 

 it. Very often a river must be fished from 

 a boat, but the principle is the same : the 

 fly has to move slowly across the spot where 

 the fish are. 



The principal difficulty in this sort of 

 fishing is striking at the right moment. 

 It is a great mistake to strike in a hurry. I 

 know some first-rate trout-fishermen who, 

 when they first fished for chub, failed sadly 

 because they struck much too quickly. 

 The stately fish requires to be treated in a 

 stately manner, and one must strike with 

 pomp and circumstance. Sometimes a sort 

 of wave may be seen following the fly ; this 

 means that the chub has spied it from a 



