Fly fishing by Grey of Fallodon Edward Grey Viscount 1862-1933

Author:Grey of Fallodon, Edward Grey, Viscount, 1862-1933
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Tags: Fishing, Flies, Artificial
Publisher: London : J. M. Dent

will be over, and during the last hours of the day not very much will be added, but it is always worth while to fish steadily with a wet fly, both before the rise begins and after it is over. This is another instance of the difference between wet and dry fly fishing. On a Hampshire chalk stream a day's fishing may mean that the angler has spent a day by the river, but it generally does not mean that he has fished all day: on a wet fly river it should mean both, unless there should be some violent interruption from the weather, or unless the water should rise quickly or be in flood and out of order.

In April I do not fish on into the evening, but leave off about the end of the afternoon: after a good day it is pleasant to sit a little on the bank after all signs of trout have ceased, listening to the sound of the water, and thinking with content of what has passed— leaving till a later hour the anticipation of other days that may be yet to come.

Other days there are indeed in April of a very different kind: bitter days when savage gusts smite upon the water and whirl the line

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