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side of a river, will rise nearer to you than 

 trout, for they lie deeper, and therefore are 

 not so much scared by an object on the 

 bank; but they are more delicate in the 

 choice of their flies than trout, and will 

 much oftener rise and refuse the fly. Trout, 

 from lying nearer the surface, are generally 

 taken before grayling, where the water is 

 slightly coloured, or after a flood: and in 

 rain, trout usually rise better than grayling, 

 though it sometimes happens, when great 

 quantities of flies come out in rain, grayling, 

 as well as trout, are taken with more cer- 

 tainty than at any other time ; — the artificial 

 fly, in such cases, looks like a wet fly, and 

 allures even the grayling, that generally is 

 more difficult to deceive than trout in the 

 same river. 



Phys. — As I was looking into a ditch 

 coming down the river, which is connected 

 with it, I saw a very large eel at the bottom, 

 who appeared to me to be feeding on a 

 small grayling: — are there many of this fish 

 in the Teme, and do they breed here? 



Hal. — There are many of this fish in the 



