TROUT-FISHING.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume VIII, Issue 2220, 15 February 1886, Page 2

TROUT-FISHING.

There are more ways of fishing for trout than space to enumerate them. Daping or dibbing with the natural fly ia often successful, particularly the improvement upon it known as floss-silk line fishing, or blow-line fishing, Yon fasten a line of the lightest floss-aillf obtainable consistent witlulpc«wy strength, to. you^'oel^ne,' g.i\r I'wok is small and fyi? in the W-jre, and is tied on. the finest drawn gut. Your rod should he long and pliant Your kit is some natural fly, a Mayfly for oJioioe, Thus armed you go to the windward side of the river, and let your gossamer line float out on thebreez6, so that the fly just keeps touching the water in front of you. A slight lift of the rod will lift the fly off the water and set, it on its travels again. As a genera] ruls the ordinary method of fly-fishing, with a' wet fly is of no avail,. -A, dryly must be used, (.)njv ois i$ p'ii.fc on the cast; and !$?.? ?a$ ™.rO> it mvh.isked ihrough the a'ivto.dryit,sotlwti'whenitfallß on the water it floats (fry and upright. A rising Hs.li is duly i( spotted," and the angler sets ipifielf to outwit it, creeping on hands and knees through the grass, and casting as if his life depended upon the c?,ss.