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other people. The advantages of thin gut 

 (and good) need not be rewritten, nor its 

 importance again be belauded. But our 

 belief may be expressed that for Scottish 

 streams the fine, clear, round gut (undrawn) 

 for fine fishing is the best, and a tapered 

 cast, though two feet shorter, is better than 

 a long cast made up of long lengths of finest 

 gut only. We see some anglers using warm 

 water to steep their gut and flies in. We 

 ourselves prefer cold. Lastly, we fully 

 re-echo Stewart's concluding sentences of 

 chapter iii. p. 54 But of flies we will have 

 more to say further on. 



