34 MINOR TACTICS OF THE CHALK STREAM 



landing-net. It has the advantage of taking any- 

 thing which comes down the stream, whether on 

 or under the surface, and its practical use demon- 

 strates itself in more ways than one. For instance, 

 in September, 1909, I went down to the river about 

 9.30, and, having put my rod together, sank 

 my net in the water, and watched for what came 

 down. There were a number of tiny diptera, 

 but no trace of dun or nymph. I therefore con- 

 cluded that it would be some time before the trout 

 would be lined up under the banks, and that I 

 could safely go away for an hour, and try certain 

 carriers where the feeding of fish is not dependent 

 on the rise. I did this, and put in over an hour's 

 exciting, if not very remunerative, sport before 

 returning to the main river. The rise came on 

 about 11.30, But for my net I might have 

 wasted all the time on the bank, instead of con- 

 ducting a siege of three very handsome trout, and 

 bringing up two of them. 



On occasion I have found a Dotterel dun tied 

 with yellow tying silk on a No. 00 hook, and 

 hackled with the tiniest dotterel hackle, after the 

 manner of Stewart (i.e., not hackled all at the 

 head, but palmer-wise for halfway down the short 

 body), quite remunerative fished wet. This, I 

 imagine, is taken for a dun emerging. 



But it is not only duns whose nymphal stages 

 may be imitated. I borrowed of Mr. Martin E. 

 Mosely, of the Fly-fishers' Club, a tube con- 



