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here four or five years ago. We fished the beck after a 

 heavy fall of rain, with my favourite spinner, and killed 

 forty-five trout weighing about fourteen pounds. It was 

 early in September, and the fish were in fair condition. 

 Coming back to Yore we proceed to Aysgarth Falls and 

 find good water for fly all the way. The scenery is grand, 

 and many a delightful day's fishing has been ended here. 

 The railway is close to the river, which is about a mile 

 from Aysgarth village on the south side ; and a similar 

 distance from Carperby on the north side. The first fall 

 is too much for the salmon ; they have never been known 

 to get up. Peter Percival told me how he once took a 

 salmon, about eighteen pounds, in a rock-bound pool 

 below the fall. The fish, after being hooked, rushed 

 under a shelving rock, and Peter could not get him out ; 

 so he decided in the evening to leave his rod well-secured, 

 with the reel arranged so that it would run, and went 

 home to bed. Early in the morning, just before daylight, 

 Peter again visited the pool and found his rod just as he 

 had left it, with the fish still fast to his line at the lower 

 end of the pool, and as he said in his own dialect, " I tuke 

 good care he didn't get back to his haad (hold) again." 



Leaving Aysgarth Falls, three in number, we now 

 press on to Askrigg, the distance being about four miles. 

 There is good fishing all the way. A favourite length 

 is Daw Water, about a mile long. I like to fish here 

 with a good east wind blowing right up the river ; under 

 these conditions I have caught many a good dish of trout. 

 Beyond this length, broken water recurs more frequently. 

 On the north bank Nappa Hall, once the residence of the 



