The Art of Angling: Greatly Enlarged And Improved; Containing Directions for ...
The Art of Angling: Greatly Enlarged And Improved; Containing Directions for ...
Charles Bowlker
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But it may be proper just to observe, that however favourable the time may be to all appearai^^, yet Trout will seldom rise vieUjuMt befart ram, or when they have been filled hf a ghU of flieu Moreover, Trout will frequently cease to rise well, even at the best of times^ from being eveiy dmif whipped at by anghrMfrom the eame te»A. My plan, in this case, is to go to the opposite side, and throw against (or rather under) the wind. A friend and I once caught two and twenty brace by this means, wh...ile a whole tribe of professed anglers, who were fish*, ing from the wmdward side, caught (as we af*> terwards heard) but three fish between them.'' An experienced fly«fisher will use three or ibur flies at the same time: the leading By should be fastened to the gut bottom by a water kaot^ in prefrrcace to a loop; the first diopptr aboi^ a yard from the leading fly ; the second dropp^t/ d by Google FLY-FISHINQ. 113 about eigfateea inches above the AxHi, and the third, if re€|uired| about a foot from the second, ft wk9f be observed, that flies of an orange or yeSow colour, nay be used with success at the clearing of rivers after they have been disturbed by heavy rain ; such as the Cowdung, Fern Fly, Cadis, &c.
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