Trout Fishing.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume IX, Issue 3010, 22 September 1888, Page 2

Trout Fishing.

As the:seasonfor trout fishing sets '■ in In the course of a few days the fol- : lowing information from a Yorkshiro angler may : not prove nninterestiiig • to our looal sportsmen. . I will tell you the secret of successful angling m a few: brief; sentences, i knowing very well that observant aaiglera will agree with me on all points. It is not- tackle that catch : fish; it is aknowledge born of obser- v; vation; in a word it ls brauis, I know -.: a man at Otley, and"need not came Ins name; his.lingers ten are liko:« thumbs,"but they serve him just tho;. : same. These fingers of his \ with honest, li&id woik, <at '||is i omu daily tiado, aie capable of-<}rMsim'

j OJwßie, artificial flies wkloh will ; Ottwfisli, aa old Bob Eamsbottom . ,■ ÜBod to say," on any lake or rivor, ■in the world—if in oompotont hands" —an important reservation born of ' ; Bob's experience' of flies and of anglers. Now I seriously boliovo that my friend is equal to tailing tee yards of gas piping for a rod and wtoards of boll wire for a lino, ' and, wk a hook and one. of his own flies at the end of it, go out and catcha fish on that fly in the wharf, , Mind, I don't say he would caro to j do so, or that ho is likely to try, nor have I authority to say anything about hira, and I therefore hope he will forgive me. I only insist that , ,if he did try, you might bet your best buok tooth against the fish. It is the ; man my gentle friend—the man and his eyes—the doors through which ho takes in his practical observations. Vory briefly, then, hero arc the secrets of successful angling in the order of their importanceAn ac- , curate knowledge of whero the fish are lying. Half the anglers I sec are vting whero they ought to be fishing Clearly an anglov whoso flit's come ovor the head of ti'out ab each ' cast, stands to catch more than one who only occasionally covers a iish, 2. The art of hooping out of site. 3. A quick eye to detect a rise, many riseabeing invisible to all but the kQflpt and most practised sight. 4. reasonable imitation in size and color of the flies on the water. 5. Bod and line—oh, bother the rod and line! In answer to a correspondent's letter, asking what flies I should suggest lie should send out for use on New Zealand rivers, a good deal will depend on the nature of the stream and the aquatic flies which are found in them. But if I were put down on the banks of any river in the world in which thero were trout, I should have no hesitation in fishing with one or the other following eight flies, dressed according to our Yorkshire •trout patterns; and if the fish would not take them I should probably throw a big stone at tho water and go away in a rage /.—Little winter brown .(woodcock and orange), brown owl, Jwgrhen bloa, dark snipe and purple, March brown, dark watchet, snipe bloa, and orange partridge,