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fish had been thrown over a few times, and 

 risen once or twice and refused the fly, he 

 rarely ever took any notice of it again in 

 that place. It was generally nearest the 

 tide that fish were taken, and the place next 

 the sea was the most successful stand, and 

 the most coveted ; and when the water is 

 low and clear hi this river, the Galway fish- 

 ermen resort to the practice of fishing with 

 a naked hook, endeavouring to entangle it 

 in the bodies of the fish; a most unartist- 

 like practice. In spring fishing I have 

 known a hungry half-starved salmon rise at 

 the artificial fly a second time, after having 

 been very slightly touched by it; but even 

 this rarely happens, and when I have seen 

 it, the water has been coloured. 



Phys. — Can you tell us why the fish rise 

 better at the fly when the tide is rising, than 

 when it is falling? There seems no reason 

 why flies should be sought for by the fish at 

 one of these seasons, rather than at the 

 other. 



Hal. — The turn of the salt water brings 

 up aquatic insects, and perhaps small fish; 



