102 GUN, ROD, AND SADDLE. 



HIS"TS TO YOUISrG AE"GLEES. 



•I CAN not hope to teach the expert, but I doubt 

 not that there are many of the younger readers of 

 this little work who may be assisted in taking 

 a larger basket of fish than they otherwise would, 

 by a knowledge of the following artifices, which I 

 have often found most successful. In a clear, warm 

 day, at the termination of the green drake season, 

 when the trout can not be induced to rise at . the 

 artificial fly, I have frequently been most successful 

 by practicing the following ruse^ viz., having only a 

 trail fly on your casting-line (which should be very 

 long and light), make it slightly fast to a water-lily 

 or other leaf; having marked where a fish is feeding, 

 go up stream well above the place, and guide, 

 through means of your rod, tlie leaf, so that it will 

 pass close by the spot, taking the precaution of 

 using a long line, and to keep as much out of sight 

 as possible ; wlien the leaf has reached the trout's 

 haunt, by a slight strike disengage your fly from 



