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A GOOD RISE ON THE AVON. 
The Avon, like all heavy flooded rivers, has 
its dour moods. It makes up for it by equally 
fine impulses in which the conditions are ideally 
good for fishing. 
Time after time I have ai ranged to visit it. 
but the rain descended and the floods came, and 
with them the telegram: “River in high flood.’’ 
It clears slowly, too, for the obvious reason 
that the river is deep and moves slowly. But it 
yields a rebate in whetting the appetite of the 
trout and putting them on the feed, so that the 
fly fished wet is taken more freely. 
A chalk stream has less bottom feeding than 
a gravel or clay river. The latter hold crayfish 
in great abundance, and on these the trout 
gorge when the young are about the size of 
prawns and soft-coated. A flood that sweeps 
over the land is the principal means of re¬ 
plenishing the larder in the chalk streams. It 
carries worms, slugs, caterpillars, and such like 
into the pools. Its advent, therefore, puts fario 
on the qui vive. A good-sized March-brown, a 
small silver-doctor—in short, anything with a 
liberal quantity of silver twist—is likely to be 
patronized. 
On the clearing of the flood, I found Avon 
trout in an expectant mood. In the heavy water 
the dry fly is of little service; one had better 
wait until the river clears and falls to its 
normal height before mounting it, and then 
only in the shallows is it likely to be taken. I 
approached a deep pool which fell away from a 
waterfall, and had sufficient momentum to 
stiffen the casting line and bring the fly into 
lively play. The current ran toward the op¬ 
posite bank, where the river was overhung with 
wide-spreading branches of chestnut and elm 
trees. The foam-speckled water became deeply 
shadowed as it coursed beneath the thick 
foliage. I fished slowly down, cast a long line, 
and not recovering it until it was carried to the 
center' and covered a good stretch of stream. 
This method of fishing is more efficient if a 
swift movement of the wrist gives a jerky action 
to the fly. Many anglers are content to let the 
lure drift round without it. but taking into ac¬ 
count that the fly counterfeits some living 
prototype, it is advisable to give it a lifelike 
appearance. A silver-bodied fly is generally 
taken for a minnow, and it dees most execu¬ 
tion when they swarm in the river. Their 
habit of turning on their side and flashing is 
practically imitated by a wrist movement of the 
rod. Like all fish, they move up stream; con¬ 
sequently. the artificial fly is a deadly bait when 
it is drawn in a jerky fashion against the 
current. 
It will, be admitted, too, that all insects that 
are carried into the stream wriggle, more or 
less, as long as there is life in them. Sedges 
and moths floating on the surface affect this 
habit, and caterpillars, beetles, and, of course, 
worms, all struggle in a similar way. This es¬ 
tablishes the rationale of giving a lively motion 
to the flv. It will be contended by some that 
late fly-fishing is practiced without any wrist 
action. It must, however, be borne in mind 
small flies do. not struggle on the surface. 
I hey float along it. carried by the wind, and, 
with the exception of a slight fluttering of the 
wings to dry them before taking to flight, they 
are motionless or nearly so. 
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Where, When and How to Catch 
Fish on the East Coast of Florida 
By Wm. H. Gregg, of St. Louis, Mo., assisted by Capt. 
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With 100 engravings and 12 colored illustrations. 
Cloth. Illustrated. 238 pages. Map. Price, $4.00. 
A visitor to Florida can hardly make the trip without 
this book, if he is at all interested in angling. It gives a 
very complete list of the fishes of the East Coast ot 
Florida, and every species is illustrated by a cut taken 
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