74 MINOR TACTICS OF THE CHALK STREAM 



he is either unable or too magnanimous to fish the 

 wet fly, that there are no fish lying, either visibly 

 or inferentially, in convenient places under his 

 own bank, so that they could be fished to with a 

 dry sedge or a Red Quill. Let him come with me, 

 and we will pull some sport out of adverse con- 

 ditions. Let us begin here, where this hatch is 

 letting a goodly supply of water into this carrier 

 for the watering of the meadows. Be it known 

 unto you, O angler, that the trout of ditches and 

 carriers are far less affected by the rise of duns, 

 and far readier to feed at all times or any time, 

 than those fish of the main river. Here our choice 

 is to fish either a sunk fly, suggesting a nymph 

 (for here an upwinged dun can hardly get through 

 undrowned), a floating fly resembling one of the 

 sedges which dodge about the camp-sheathing or 

 a good-sized Wickham's Fancy. Search all the 

 tail of the run carefully with one or the other of 

 these patterns, and it shall go hard with you if you 

 do not get a chance, at any rate, from a passable 

 fish — possibly more than one. 



A little lower down the carrier runs through a 

 culvert, and, if the hay-makers have not got him 

 out, one is likely to find quite a respectable trout 

 just below the arch, and he is to be had if you 

 fish him right. Farther down there is a low wood 

 bridge, through which the stream flows briskly, 

 and below this there are usually two or three 

 feeding fish. For some reason these are specially 



