134 SALMOXIA. [seventh day. 



have both cloud and wind, which, half an hour ago we 

 had no right to expect. Let me advise you to use 

 three flies of different shades of the dun ; the stretcher, 

 a pale blue with yellow body; the first dropper, a 

 winged fly with dun body ; and the third, a similar 

 fly with dark body. There, you see ; he rose and 

 refused your stretcher — and again he has a second 

 time refused it. I think the colour of the dubbing 

 is too bright : try a winged fly for the stretcher with 

 a greenish body. Good — he has taken it, and ought 

 to be a large fish. Now we have him : he is at least 

 sixteen inches long, and in good season. Ornither, 

 I advise you to use the same kind of fly, and to put 

 up your tackle precisely in the same way as Poietes 

 has done. 



POIET. — How well they rise ! At that moment I 

 had two on my line : one of them is gone, but I hope 

 I shall land the other. 



HAL. — Fish with activity while the cloud lasts. I 

 fear the sun is coming out, when it will be more 

 difficult to take fish. I shall try the next pool, and I 

 advise you to follow me and fish by turns, — passing 

 each other, and taking different pools below, and so 

 wend your way downwards, fishing wherever you see 

 fish sporting. There is no better part of the river 

 than that pool below you, and you cannot take a wrong 

 direction. Immediately beyond Burrington Bridge 



