92 ANGLERS' EVENINGS. 



ever ready to help with a word of counsel,) has always a 

 stock of suitable flies. 



When on the stream, begin at the first weir-pool 

 below the bridge. Mine host of the " Rutland " says it 

 contains more fish than any other pool on the river, but 

 as to catching them — that is another matter. From this 

 pool down to the stepping-stones, near the rookery, 

 there is about a mile of water of the choicest kind — a 

 stream slowly gliding over gravelly shallows. Be 

 particular to fish the deep silent pools at the ends of the 

 shallows. Leaving the first pool, you come successively 

 to the second and the third weir, then comes the mill 

 stream junction (where is a glorious shallow), next, 

 the island, with its swim, and then the rustic bridge 

 pool. All these are good places, and this description 

 thrice repeated will apply to almost all the water 

 from this point to the stepping-stones, where, in the 

 course of a couple of hours, we will suppose you have 

 arrived with two or three brace of fish in your 

 creel. The catch of thirteen-and-a-half brace before- 

 mentioned, was chiefly taken out of the water we have 

 now passed. From this point to Haddon the river widens 

 considerably, the water becomes rougher, and the pools are 

 larger and deeper. By some fishers this part is considered 

 the cream of the water, and by the time the angler 

 arrives here his success for the day is pretty clearly 

 indicated. The holds are many, and the fish plentiful, 

 and such as delight the angler's eye. 



Again, be sure to try the pools. These constitute 

 one of the peculiarities of this stream, and it is casting 



