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as it requires a very light hand to cast the bait up 

 stream and a quick wrist to strike. 



The bait is allowed to float down towards the feet of 

 the angler wading in midstream; but at the same time 

 there must be no slack line, or little will result beyond 

 the loss of the worm. 



This style of angling is quite as difficult as fly- 

 fishing, perhaps more so, and men who are adepts at 

 it have no mean reputation around the country-side, 

 even when time has long since obliged them to relin- 

 quish the rod and creel. 



To return to the maxim at the head of these notes — 

 salmon-fishers should always persevere, as there is no 

 knowing when a fish may take ; so the half-hearted 

 angler who hangs about the banks, blaming the river, 

 the day, and everything but himself, does not get 

 half a chance. 



When the extent of the water has been fished over 

 without result, some will give it up and wait until, as 

 they express it, " they begin to move.'' Now, as long 

 as the fly is in the water, there is always a chance of 

 hooking a fish, therefore it is as well to stick to it and 

 continue casting the pools down in their order, as it is 

 impossible to tell when salmon may commence to take, 

 or a change of fly may do the trick. 



Some anglers are wont to gauge the probabilities of 

 sport by the number of fish showing themselves, but 

 we are of opinion that the taking fish as often as not 

 does not show himself; at the back end of the season 



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