40 FISH : THEIR HABITS AND HAUNTS. 



2. Take care to have your running-line 

 always clear ; for if there is any impediment, 

 and you happen to hook a good trout, he 

 will break your tackle to pieces before you 

 can free the line. 



3. The water must be clear, the clearer 

 the better, provided the day be cloudy ; it 

 is useless fly-fishing when the water is thick. 



4. Different waters require different flies ; 

 those that may be good killers on one river 

 may not catch a single trout in another. 



Fly-making- is one of those delicate and 

 minute matters which can be learned ef- 

 fectually only by imitation, — just as a man 

 learns to make a shoe, a bucket, a chair, or 

 a table. One will learn more of fly-making 

 in an hour by the eye than in a twelve- 

 months by the understanding. 



Trout-Fishing by Dabbing. 



For this method of fishing, a fly-rod and 

 finest line, with two yards of fine casting- 



