304 FISHING GOSSIP.. 
We have devoted this article principally to the 
errors of fly-fishing as generally practised, and we 
hope we have succeeded in convincing the reader of 
the truth of our observations ; but as we have fre- 
quently endeavoured in vain by viva voce demonstra- 
tion to persuade anglers to fish up, we have no doubt 
numbers will adhere to their own way. As no 
amount of mere argument will convince such, we offer 
to find two anglers, who, in a water suitable for show- 
ing the superiority of fishing up, will be more suc- 
cessful than any three anglers fishing down after the 
ordinary method. 
We have just given the same reasons for fishing 
up stream as in the first edition of our Practical 
Angler, because upon this point there can be nothing 
new ; and we are as ready as ever to find anglers 
who are prepared to do battle in their behalf, on the 
terms just stated ; but while one or two have come 
forward to dispute the theory, none have accepted our 
challenge and come forward to dispute the practice. 
One reviewer—the only objector we can remember 
who gives a reason—says, “that so long as streams run 
down, carrying the food of the fish with them, so long 
should anglers fish down.” While, however, his pre- 
mises are undeniably correct, we entirely dissent from 
his conclusions. Streams certainly run down and 
carry the food of the trout with them, but along with 
that food they do not carry an apparition in the shape 
