180 TROUT FISHING 



most of what has been written about the 

 delights of "stalking" a rising trout 

 one can give unreserved assent. Every 

 moment of the action is peculiarly aglow 

 with the spirit of the chase. In a 

 manner which is telling from its very 

 simplicity, this charm, so enthralling in 

 itself and so difficult to reproduce in 

 words, has been expressed by Mr. R. B. 

 Marston. Recounting an afternoon on 

 the Tweed, he wrote to Mr. E. M. Tod, 

 who published his letter : " In about 

 "three hours I killed a nice basket of 

 "over twelve pounds of trout, all with 

 "the fly, and quite two-thirds with the 

 " dry fly. I used your double - hook 

 "midges, three on my cast (Greenwell's 

 " Glory and Iron Blue did best). I fished 

 " all three flies first dry and then wet. I 

 " also fished with two of the flies dry and 

 "one wet, or one dry and two wet, and 

 "this in the rapid broken water of the 

 " streams as well as on the pools. It is a 

 "great mistake to think dry-fly fishing 

 " must be confined to slow smooth water. 



