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the trout ; but it seldom misses the mark, if 

 the fly is small enough, which the trout often 

 does. 



Sometimes the grayling will rise a dozen times 

 to a fly, and for some reason refuse it, but will 

 take it at the very next cast. Just why this is so 

 is one of the unanswerable problems that often 

 vexes or confounds the angler. Presumably the 

 fly is too large, or is not presented in just the 

 right way to please her ladyship. But the angler 

 should not despair under such circumstances, but 

 remember the old couplet, " If at first you don't 

 succeed, try, try again." Moreover, he must re- 

 member that he is fishing for grayling, not for 

 trout. He must not cast on a riffle, or at its 

 head, but below, in the eddy or still water, where 

 it is deepest. There lie the large fish, though 

 small ones may be in the shallower water, and 

 it is the latter that perplex one by their antics, 

 oftentimes leaping over one's flies in play. 



Trout generally lie in ambush beneath the 

 bank, shelving rocks, or roots, usually in shallow 

 water, from whence they rush with tigerlike feroc- 

 ity upon the fly, often leaping over it in their 

 eagerness for the fancied prey. On the contrary, 

 grayling lie on the bottom of pools, in swift 



