MINOR TACTICS OF THE CHALK STREAM, AND KINDRED STUDIES

By G. E. M. Skues.

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Trout-fishing in chalk streams has been exhaustively treated from the dry-fly point of view in recent years with the result that wet-fly fishing on chalk streams has practically ceased to exist. In this work an endeavour is made to show how, on many occasions and under many differing conditions of wind and weather, the wet-fly fished up-stream to individual trout may fully justify its employment to supplement the dry fly, and may add to the weight of the creel without infringing the most rigid code of fair sport. This is the chief of the author’s ‘Minor Tactics,” but with this material he gives the reader the benefit of the experience of five-and-twenty years of chalk-stream fishing in the shape of uns which he has found heïipful, and observations, some of which at least he believes to 9e new.