SUBAQUEOUS HAPPENINGS IN ART 17 



dressing as I am at liberty to give : Primrose 

 tying silk lapped down the hook from head to tail, 

 a pale blue or creamy whisk of hen's feather as 

 soft as possible and not long, three or four turns of 

 coarser untwisted primrose sewing silk at the tail, 

 bod}^ rather fat, of a mixed dubbing of a creamy 

 pink (invented by Mr. R. S. Austin, the well- 

 known angler and fly-dresser of Tiverton), and a 

 soft blue dun hackle, very short in the fibre at the 

 head, the dressing being preferably finished at the 

 shoulder behind the hackle. When this fly is 

 thoroughly soaked it has a wonderfully soft and 

 translucent, insect-like effect. It proved even 

 more successful than Greenwell's Glory, and with 

 one or other I am almost always able to give a 

 good account of bulgers instead of coming empty 

 away. 



OF UNDER-WATER TAKING, ITS INDICATIONS, AND 

 THE TIME TO STRIKE. 



Friends with whom I have discussed the use of 

 the upstream wet fly on chalk streams have fre- 

 quently said to me : " But how are you to know 

 when the trout takes, and when to strike ?" It i? 

 a very pertinent question, and the answer is not 

 to be given in a word. Often the indications which 

 bid you pull home the hook are so subtle and in- 

 conspicuous that the angler is at a loss to account 

 for the miracle which is evidenced by his hooped 

 rod and protesting reel, but even in the roughest 



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