76 SEA FLY-FISHING. [PART I. 
those recommended for spinning. When thus 
ready for a start you should, with the point of 
your rod slanted down into the water (more or less 
according to its depth), and about fifteen or twenty 
yards of line out, be rowed over the most likely 
parts of it. You will probably, though tempted to 
do so at first, find it a loss of time to pull up as soon 
as you feel you have a fish on, but prefer waiting 
until the strain on the rod tells you that you have 
enough to make it worth while. Then, raising the 
point of it, up they will come in a string, perhaps 
from half a dozen to nearly three times that num- 
ber. I believe I may say I have seen each of six- 
teen hooks ona line garnished with a fish at the 
same time, and I have myself brought up two on 
one hook. While at anchor I have, merely with a 
single joint of a rod, or a walking-stick, with two 
or three flies attached to it, caught scores of these 
little fellows, by simply moving it backwards and 
forwards under water. With a hoop-net, like a 
minnow-net on a large scale, great numbers can be 
caught off the stern of a vessel at anchor, if they 
have been previously attracted to the spot by 
baiting it freely. 
Were the sport, whilst fishing with the fly in 
the way last described, confined to Cuddies, it 
