Coarse fishing by Sheringham H. T. (Hugh Tempest) 1876-1930

Author:Sheringham, H. T. (Hugh Tempest), 1876-1930
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Tags: Fishing
Publisher: London : Adam and Charles Black
Published: 1912-03-25T05:00:00+00:00

Besides, the sight impresses other people; the fish look so much more important when they are well arranged.

Squeeze the fly in your handkerchief. It is draggled and wet, and will not float until it is dry again. When the water is squeezed out set its wings and hackle to rights, the wings standing jauntily up at the proper angle from each other, and the hackle well displayed at the neck. Then make four or five casts in the air to complete the drying, and have at the dace again.

Two more rather small ones are in the creel now, and rises have ceased. The reason probably is that the fish have moved away upstream. The capture of a fish or two often sends dace off". If you can find them, you can sometimes catch one or two more in the new place. Then off' they go once more, and you must look for them again. But in a small, shallow stream like this they will not stand more than three or four attacks, and they get so shy that nothing more can be done with them. That is evidently what has happened here, and the two more that we have secured are all that we are likely to get out of this shoal. One is a |-pounder, though, so we have done pretty well.

We will work gradually upstream towards the mill, trying a cast here and there, but with our main object the shallows at the tail of the mill-pool, where the wet fly will be worth trying, I said earlier that I thought the wet fly better for coarse fish, on the whole, than the

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