Letters to young sportsmen on hunting, angling and shooting by Mackillop J

Author:Mackillop, J
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Tags: Hunting -- Great Britain, Fox hunting -- Great Britain, Fishing -- Great Britain, Deer hunting -- Great Britain, Fowling -- Great Britain
Publisher: London : "Country Life", Limited, George Newnes, Limited; New York, C. Scribner's Sons

IV. WHERE AND HOW TO FISH.

YOU are a tolerably accomplished fly-fisher by this time if you can execute with some certainty and accuracy the various casts suggested in my former letters. You may now much improve your accuracy of throw by practising your casting at daisies, or croquet hoops or any target you please on the lawn. The finest form of all angling is that of fishing with the dry fly which is pursued chiefly on the rivers that have their sources in the chalk— placid, clear, full of good fish food. Yet there is a special charm of their own in those faster streams where the fly is generally fished and taken in a state of at least semi-submergence. On the dry-fly rivers you seldom trouble to throw for a fish unless you see him rise ; on the wet-fly streams you " chuck and chance it " as the dry-fly purist scornfully says, but you chuck, if you are at all experienced, only where the chance is good ; and the necessary discrimination leads you to a study of the habits of the fish which is full of an interest of its own. The angler of ripe wisdom realises " the places where the fish lie" almost without taking thought on the matter; and this on rivers which he is visiting for the first time. Of course, on the rivers which are familiar to you and which you have fished again and again the haunt of every fish of note will soon be known.

Of this problem, as of some others, you may best find a solution satisfactory to yourself by trying to consider it from the fish's point of view. If you were a trout and desirous of feeding on flies that were coming down the water's surface, to what part of the broad stream would you betake yourself ? It would be an insult both to

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