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the fly and you resolve to make it a day of fly only. 
You put on your best fly and you begin, full of 
hope. For an hour or two you cover much water 
without a single rise, and you begin to doubt 
whether the fish mean to take at all to-day. Soon, 
just to see whether they will move at all, you put 
up the spinning-rod just merely to have one try 
down the pool. A fish takes the accursed thing 
and you are lost. Abandoning all sense of 
decency, you pursue the horrible craft, and at 
dusk you stagger back to the fishing-hut with 
half a dozen great fish upon your back and with 
your conscience hanging about the neck of your 
heart, which keeps on protesting in vain that this 
was really no day for the fly." 
Even Chaytor, however, admits that "in a 
cold, wet season, when the river is in flood 
for weeks together, with only odd days when 
fishing is possible, the minnow can be really and 
legitimately useful." On the other hand, in 
contrast to the above warnings and diatribes, 
Mr. J. Arthur Hutton, who is so well known, 
particularly in connection with the Wye, and is, 
of course, a most experienced and successful 
salmon fisher, as well as one of the most learned 
in the life-history of the salmon, describes spui- 
