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one kept one's eyes ia tliose gusty days, when 

 you not unfrequently got your fly back smart 

 in your face. But what with the wind and the 

 stream, when you hooked a fish there, he fought. 

 Strange to stay, though the pool was ahve with 

 fish, and rising in all parts by the weeds, you 

 seldom took one anywhere but in the stream 

 and its entrance into the pool between the two 

 high banks of sedges. If by chance you ever 

 did rise a fish in other parts, he generally beat 

 you, and got oS". 



I put a little boat on this big pool, and 

 got very nearly drowned two or three times, 

 but never did anything to repay me for the 

 trouble. From the big pool there was about 

 half a mile of still, deep water, with little or no 

 stream, but full of fish. When the wind was 

 right — anything east, north, or south-east was 

 useless, as it was still water on all the good 

 casts — there were plenty of fish to be got, and 

 here generally lay the heaviest fish. From the 

 end of this long still water there was about a 

 mile or so of rough water, in which you occa- 

 sionally got sea-trout, and I have caught grilse. 

 You then came to the pools into which the tide 

 ran up near the Garrynahine Inn and bridge. 

 There occasionally, particularly in the latter 

 end of the season, you got fish ; and if you 



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