FLY-FISHING. 291 
FLY-FISHING, AND HOW IT SHOULD 
BE DONE. 
FLY-FISHING has always been, and we believe always 
will be, the favourite method of angling; and 
deservedly so. Few who have once owned its 
sway are capable of resisting its attractions. What 
golden memories of the past it recalls! What bright 
visions of the future it portrays! And when May 
comes, that month pre-eminently the fly-fisher’s, with 
its bright sunny mornings and soft southern breezes, 
once more, unencumbered with anything save a light 
’ rod and small box of flies, the angler wends his way 
to some favourite stream. Once more with elastic 
tread he climbs the mountain’s brow, and having 
gained the summit, what a prospect meets his gaze! 
There, far as the eye can reach, rises into the blue 
sky summit after summit of the heath-clad hills, 
while underneath. lie the grassy slope and luxuriant 
meadow, the green corn-field and waving wood, and, 
glittering and circling among all like a silver thread, 
winds the far-stretching stream in its beauty. There 
is nothing to break the solitude save the plaintive 
bleating of the sheep or the ery of the moorcock. 
