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soon as they have cleared the decks, retiring whence 

 they came. 



S molts are a great nuisance, causing waste of precious 

 time when the rise is on, as when hooked they must be 

 released tenderly ; but as they generally lie well off the 

 edge of the stream, they may be avoided to a great 

 extent by lifting the line before the flies reach the 

 stiller water. 



Fishing with the bustard or artificial moth is indulged 

 in from twilight until midnight during the summer 

 months, but chiefly by those to whom the bag is of 

 pecuniary importance. 



The Tynes and their tributaries run down very 

 quickly after a flood, and in this respect compare 

 unfavourably with the Eden ; indeed in the upper 

 reaches, unless the angler arrives in the nick of time, 

 he can expect to land but small fish, so the telegraph 

 wire comes in handy. 



The bed of the Tynes consists in most parts chiefly 

 of large cobbles, and at low water in the highland 

 districts there are few deep tracts where large trout 

 can exist in privacy ; it is also very doubtful if there is 

 an overabundance of feed, so it is possible that these 

 conditions may account for the fact that the fish run 

 rather small : we cannot from experience put the 

 average weight at above from four to three to the 

 pound, although we may have been unfortunate. 



Some of the rocky burns running into the North 

 Tyne have yielded a much better average weight of 



