50 TROUT FISHING 



heed than they usually receive. Most 

 anglers take it for granted that fishing on 

 a lake is coarse work compared with fish- 

 ing on a stream. There seems to be some 

 reason for that belief. A stream is narrow 

 and not very deep, and as a rule any part 

 of it can be reached by a fly as you walk 

 along the bank ; a lake is wide and deep, 

 and even when one has fished a whole day 

 there are great expanses unexplored. It 

 is natural to feel that fishing on a lake is 

 angling on a large scale, calling for less 

 fragile appliances. In one respect this 

 view is not altogether wrong. The flies 

 that come out on lakes are in many cases 

 larger than those which are common on 

 rivers, and it is right to assume that the 

 artificial flies for lakes must as a rule be 

 larger than those which are proper on 

 streams. In another respect, however, 

 the view is wrong. On a stream the flies 

 do not remain where they fall. They move 

 down, and in moving beyond the radius 

 of the shower of spray may float over, or 

 by the side of, a feeding trout. On a lake, 



