"Let us rest on the bridge and look if we can see any fish," said Maggie to the Captain. Still Maggie made herself heard for lovers ears differ from those of the common herd, and, though often deaf to the voice of others, are acute in hearing, as well as in comprehending, their own sweet language. Between this double thunder of hydraulic artillery it was hard to hear the sound of one's voice. Below the pool, some hundred yards, as though weary of waiting, the waters again rushed rapidly roaring down a Bteeper and longer incline than before. In this pool these fish-kings of the river lingered long and often, preparing for further advancement up stream. It crossed at a fall of the river that, on one side seething like a cauldron of boiling foam, was, on the other, silently sinking to sleep in a pool which, to the salmon weary with swimming so far from the sea, seemed a Bethesda of healing and restful repose. Thus rambling, they came to a bridge which, though not a bridge of size, was the Pontifex Maximus of the stream.
The stream ran higher than ever known before in the freshet wherewith recent rains had swollen its musclesâa reason that they had so long postponed their proposed purpose of whipping it for salmon, till finally they came to the conclasion that for such naughty behavior it onght to be whipped. Miles to them (lovers as they were) flew faster than minutes to the ennuies and many of both they had just "told off," as a sailor might Bay, on the log of Time. Communicated.] In the prolonged twilight of one day that seemed inch by inch, from the infinity of space, to combat the approach of darkness, and unwilling to resign the sceptre of the sun to Erebus or the stars, Maggie Macleod, the daughter of the laird of Craigie Castle, with the shades of evening closiog over, had been strolling along the river running by the castle with Captain Macduff, a visitor at their mansion. And may it not also be assumed, since trout obtain a greater variety of food and more substantial fare below the surface than on it that the main business of feed- ing takes place below, to the benefit of the wet-fly method, and that those trout which, balancing themselves a few inches below the top of the water, take now and then a dun if it passes directly over them, are not for the most part, very intent on feeding, and hence the more cautious and circum- spect? That very much more accurate and delicate casting is reauired in usiDg a dry fly than a wet one hardly requires mention and if the more the difficulties in number and the greater in degree the greater the charm, then dry-flying is cer- tainly the most charmiDg of all methods. Again, a tish is always the more timid and cii- cnmspect the nearer it iB to the surfaceânnless when very near a bantâand this makes for dry-flyers another element of difficulty. Thegutisbettei seen by thefiBh on the sarface than in mid-water, and this gives the fish a proportionate increase of advantage. : Ĭontributing Library: San Francisco Public Libraryĭigitizing Sponsor: California State Library Califa/LSTA GrantĬlick here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book.ġ50 Sfeje Pttjedtfr awtf Sfymctommu Sept3 â methods.
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