142 THE DRY-FLY MAN'S HANDBOOK 



the fish has decided to take it — a proceeding which 

 usually results in scaring the trout. 



A number of places are marked e on the plan in 

 Plate X. They are all favourable ones, if fished from 

 the angler's bank, preferably with the horizontal cast 

 and with the fisherman, of course, well down and out 

 of sight. 



Many of the difficult places on the plan could be 



quite easily fished by an angler 



Wading. wading and placing himself 



directly below the trout. The 

 shallow depicted on this plate is a comparatively nar- 

 row one, as the stream on which it is situated is one 

 of two, and the smaller of the two branches into 

 which the Test is divided at this part of the river. 

 Wading this shallow is strictly prohibited. Every 

 part of it can be covered by anyone able to cast a 

 moderately long line, and in most places drag can be 

 retarded or avoided ; of course, in some places this is 

 very difficult. Possibly the fisherman whose whole 

 aim it is to make records might find fault with this 

 regulation, but I venture to suggest that a true sports- 

 man would glory in it and not be annoyed even by 

 his incapacity to fish parts of it. 



Wading on every shallow should as far as possible 

 be avoided, and when wading the fisherman should 

 make his way from the nearest point on the bank to 

 the station from which he intends to cast. He should 

 move slowly, and when once arrived at the station 

 should as far as possible keep absolutely still, and, 



