CHAPTER IX 



CATERPILLARS 



" OF the caterpillars, spiders, and other 

 creatures which are supposed to fall from 

 the trees into the water, and into the 

 trout's mouth, and of the consequent ad- 

 vantage of trees projecting over a stream ; 

 of the sapient advice, both verbal and 

 written, to cultivate vegetation overhang- 

 ing the river, because it increases the 

 supply of natural food ; of the statement 

 that fish under trees are invariably in the 

 best condition, anglers have heard from 

 time immemorial. My advice is, cultivate 

 your trees, because they are of advantage 

 as giving shelter to the fish. Not a single 

 example of these tree windfalls has been 

 found in the hundreds of autopsies which 

 I have macle, and all the caterpillars and 



