the hearing ability of the trout! But be careful about scuffing the feet on the bottom of the boat or knocking the oars against it as such sounds carry great distances under water.
A river can be fished by hauling the boat upstream a day's float; by going down one side of the stream and working up the other; by floating down to a trysting place and being hauled back at night or, on the last day, floating to the next town and shipping the boat back. On some large rivers best success is had by fishing up stream.
Casting from a boat sometimes is difficult for the man used to wading. Striking the water behind on the back cast perhaps does no more harm than to slow up the cast a trifle but it looks " bunglesome " and a high back cast avoids it. When the young angler finds himself " tipping " the water behind him he can keep his fly up by slightly raising the casting arm at the end of the back cast.
