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time to take any considerable number is in a 

 hot bright day and low water. Throw two flies, 

 and put a small maggot well scoured in bran, on 

 each hook, taking care the point and barb come 

 well out ; otherwise, the fish being small and light, 

 and the skin of the maggot tough, you will fail to 

 hook them. Get them speedily out, as this is a 

 nimble fish, and very apt to wriggle off. In ang- 

 ling for scarlings, let your flies sink deeper than is 

 customary in regular fly fishing : this is an unfailing 

 mode of having sport ; when weather and water 

 suit, it never fails, and you may take from ten to 

 twenty dozen in a day, according to your expertness 

 and perseverance. Scarlings abound in particular 

 streams of the' same river, for they seem to lie to- 

 gether in shoals. They are generally found, too, in 

 little eddies, and behind stones in the middle of the 

 river ; also on the swift break or head of a stream ; 

 and we must again repeat, in jthe very shallow 

 streams, where a trout angler would not suppose 

 a fish could lie. 



They are very delicious eating ; but from their 

 size, afford little sport, unless two or three are 

 hooked at the same time ; a circumstance by no 

 means unusual. 



SALMON PINK. 



In March and April, the small salmon pinks or 

 fry may be caught by the same means as samlets ; 

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