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the water is rising and before it thickens, and for 

 a short time after it becomes clear again, while 

 still high, for the reason that the salmon which had 

 been resting below, are then making an advance 

 towards quitting the pool altogether for a higher 

 station in the river. In such a state I should 

 commence throwing from the field above x l, 

 as high up as the bushes will allow, straight 

 across the stream, with about eighteen yards of 

 line, and should play the fly continually towards 

 my left side :— why, I will explain hereafter. 

 After repeating this once or twice (as indeed 

 every throw should be), I should cast with ano- 

 ther yard or two, in a direction slanting more 

 down-stream ; working the fly first towards the 

 right, till it came to within four or five yards of 

 this bank, and then, by gently carrying the point 

 of my rod back again before me, over to the 

 left, give the fly a curve in the water, and draw 

 it up-stream in eight or ten strokes. Thus I 

 should fish the whole stream, taking the nearest 

 range at the first time of going over it. Then I 

 should give out another yard or so, recommenc- 

 ing where I started, and work down the stream 

 in the same fashion as I have last described, till 

 my fly falls near the head of the opposite eddy d. 

 The line must then be lengthened to the utmost, 

 and thrown at about an angle of forty-five 

 degrees, letting the fly continue at its work till it 



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