296 FISHING GOSSIP. 
anglers will occasionally fish up the pools—(as for 
fishing up a strong stream they never think of it)— 
but even then they do not do it properly, and meet 
with little better success than if they had followed 
their usual method. They will also, if going to some 
place up a river, walk up, not fish up to it, their plan 
being to go to the top of a pool and then fish it down, 
never casting their line. above them at all. 
We shall now mention in detail the advantages 
of fishing up, in order to show its superiority over the 
old method. 
The first and great advantage is, that the angler 
is unseen by the trout. Trout, as is well known, keep 
their heads up stream ; they cannot remain stationary 
in any other position. This being the case, they see 
objects above and on both sides of them, but cannot 
discern anything behind them, so that the angler fish- 
ing down will be seen by them twenty yards off; 
whereas the angler fishing up will be unseen, al- 
‘though he be but a few yards in their rear. The ad- 
vantages of this it is impossible to over-estimate. No 
creatures are more easily scared than trout ; if they 
see any object moving on the river’s bank, they run 
into deep water, or beneath banks and stones, from 
which they will not stir for some time. A bird flying 
across the water, or the shadow of a rod, will some- 
times alarm them; and nothing connected with 
angling is more certain than this, that if the trout see 
