A pal and I often combine wading and floating in one stream. We put the boat on a wagon and put it in the river where the road crosses it. Then we don waders and fish down stream, the boatsman fetching up in the rear with the boat. When we want some duffle or have a fish to put in the bag we simply walk back or wait for the boat. The end of the day finds us at the main river and a launch picks us up and tows us back to the camp.
One fishes the same places when casting from a boat as he does when wading. The boat is kept out in the stream and the angler casts toward shore, the boatsman driving a paddle, or better still a garden rake, into the bottom, or dropping anchor if in very deep water, until the likely spot is thoroughly fished. One usually casts a little longer line when floating although I do not believe that a boat tends to scare a fish if the anglers are quiet. You may talk and shout as much as you ^lease as sounds above the water are unheard by the fish — something a friend with whom I go trout fishing apparently does not believe. Anyway he says my singing scares' the trout. I have never learned whether this was a comment on my singing or a compliment on
