302 FISHING GOSSIP. 
Throwing our flies, partly up and partly across from 
where we are standing, we allow them to swim 
down a yard or two, when we cast again, never 
allowing them to go below that part of the stream 
opposite us. But though the angler gets over the 
ground as quickly this way, and casts as often, as if 
he were fishing up, yet he has not the same chance, 
because if a trout catches sight of his flies just as 
he is lifting them, their sudden abstraction may deter 
it from taking them on their again alighting ; whereas 
in fishing up the angler casts a yard or two further up 
every time, so that every trout may see his flies at 
the moment they alight. 
The reader must not suppose, however, that fishing 
up is all that is necessary for success ; on the con- 
trary, the angler may throw his flies up stream, and 
know less of the art of fly-fishing, and catch fewer 
trout, than his neighbour who is fishing down. The 
mere fact of an angler throwing his flies up stream is 
no proof that he is a fly-fisher. Of those who fish 
down stream, some catch more and some less, and in 
like manner with those fishing up, one may catch 
three times as many as another, depending upon the 
particular method they each adopt ; and unless the 
reader pays strict attention to the details referred to 
in our Practical Angler, we are afraid he will not 
derive much benefit. Fishing up is much more dif- 
ficult than fishing down, requiring more practice, and 
