Minor Tactics of the Chalk Stream

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Author

Skues, G. E. M. (George Edward Mackenzie), 1858-1949

Title

Minor tactics of the chalk stream and kindred studies

Original Publication

London: Adam and Charles Black, 1914.

Credits

Richard Tonsing and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)

Language

English

LoC Class

SH: Agriculture: Aquaculture, Fisheries, Angling

Subject

Fly casting

Category

Text

Project Gutenberg

eBook-No. 76776

Release Date

August 31, 2025

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.Untitled
2. 2.AGENTS — MINOR TACTICS OF THE CHALK STREAM AND KINDRED STUDIES
3. 3.NOTE TO THE SECOND EDITION
4. 4.FOREWORD
5. 5.CONTENTS — CHAPTER I OF THE BEGINNING OF THINGS — OF THE INQUIRING MIND.
6. 6.CHAPTER II SUBAQUEOUS HAPPENINGS IN NATURE — OF THE DROWNING OF DUNS AND OTHER INSECTS. — OF THE STAGES IN A RISE OF DUNS.
7. 7.CHAPTER III SUBAQUEOUS HAPPENINGS IN ART — OF MEDICINE FOR BULGERS. — OF UNDER-WATER TAKING, ITS INDICATIONS, AND THE TIME TO STRIKE. — OF ROUGH WATER AND GREY-BROWN SHADOW.
8. 8.CHAPTER IV SUPPLEMENTARY IN THE MATTER OF FLIES — OF WET-FLY DRESSINGS FOR CHALK STREAMS. — OF THE IMPORTANCE OF THE COLOUR OF TYING SILK IN DUBBED FLIES. — OF THE IMITATION OF NYMPHS, CADDIS, ALDER LARVÆ, AND SHRIMPS.
9. 9.CHAPTER V SPECIAL CONDITIONS AND WET-FLY SOLUTIONS — NERVES. — OF THE TROUT OF GLASSY GLIDES. — OF THE WET FLY IN POOLS, BAYS, AND EDDIES. — OF THE JUDICIOUS USE OF THE MOON. — THE WET-FLY OIL TIP. — OF GENERALSHIP AND THE WET FLY. — A POTTED TROUT, AND ONE OTHER. — OF TWO SATURDAY AFTERNOONS.
10. 10.CHAPTER VI UNCLASSIFIED — OF HOVERING AND SOARING, AND OF CRUISING TROUT. — OF THE PORPOISE ROLL.
11. 11.CHAPTER VII SUNDRY CONSIDERATIONS — OF THE RELATION OF PATTERN TO THE POSITION OF TROUT, AND HEREIN OF THE TAKING OFF OF WARY WILLY. — OF THE USE OF SPINNERS DURING THE RISE OF DUNS, AND HEREIN OF THE VAGARIES OF THE BLUE-WINGED OLIVE. — OF GENERAL FEEDERS, AND HEREIN OF THE UNDOING OF AUNT SALLY. — OF ATTENTION TO CASUAL FEEDERS. — OF THE FREQUENTATION OF DITCHES, DRAINS, AND CARRIERS. — OF THE NEGOTIATION OF TAILERS. — OF THE FASCINATION OF BRIDGES.
12. 12.CHAPTER VIII MAINLY TACTICAL — OF THE DELIBERATE DRAG. — IN THE GLASS EDGE. — OF THE CROSS-COUNTRY CAST. — WHAT TUSSOCKS ARE FOR. — OF THE ALLEGED MARCH BROWN. — GENERAL FLIES AND FANCY FLIES.
13. 13.CHAPTER IX CONSIDERATIONS MORAL, TACTICAL, PSYCHOLOGICAL, AND INCIDENTAL — OF FAITH. — OF THE BANK OF VANTAGE. — OF COURAGE AND THE JEOPARDIZING OF TUPPENCE HA’PENNY. — OF IMPOSSIBLE PLACES. — OF THE USE OF THE LANDING-NET. — OF THE WEEDING TROUT. — OF THE LIGHT ROD ON CHALK STREAMS. — OF WET-FLY CASTING.
14. 14.CHAPTER X FRANKLY IRRELEVANT — A DRY-FLY MEMORY.
15. 15.CHAPTER XI ETHICS OF THE WET FLY
16. 16.CHAPTER XII APOLOGIA

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