The Way of a Trout With a Fly And Some Further Studies in Minor Tactics
The Way of a Trout With a Fly And Some Further Studies in Minor Tactics
G E M George Edward Mackenzie Skues
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For a while there was a lull. Then I became aware of a scattering rise of small palish olives. I cast over a number of rising fish with but little success, for though I rose several of them they all came short except four, and I was convinced that they were all grayling, like the two brace I caught. Since grayling were, as the chemists put it, " in excess " in the water, and as the standing rule is to kill all you take, I knocked my two brace on the head. Presently I turned down-stream again, a...nd seeing another grayling put up I cast down to him and let the fly swing over him. In a second he took firmly and was fast. Another followed, and another, almost as fast as I could cast. Fish which came short at a fly floating loose struck firmly and hooked themselves on a taut down-stream line. By degrees ere five o'clock I raised my 13 98 THE WAY OF A TROUT WITH A FLY two brace of grayling to nine and a half brace, and thought I had done good service to the water in doing so. All this time I had not seen another trout put up.
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