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hope to point out what appears to us to be 

 undoubted causes, noted from many com- 

 parative averages and innumerable notes (see 

 under chapter on e Worm-fishing/ and discus- 

 sion of 'weathers/ chap. viii.). 



If a river rises or maintains a higher level 

 than medium, or if it be slightly coloured, 

 say, reddish or darker than amber, and just 

 rather deep for comfortable wading, then 

 good fishing may be had by standing well 

 back from the river verge, or w.ell back from 

 the lip of a steep bank, and casting opposite 

 your feet, with three flies, and let them float 

 down (or drift down) close under your own 

 side, casting rapidly, and rarely allowing your 

 flies to get below your standpoint. 



Stewart advises the angler ' always to keep 

 on the shallow side of a stream, because the 

 best trout generally lie under the bank on 

 the deep side/ This has not been our invari- 

 able experience. Sometimes often, we may 

 say we have with advantage waded, where 

 wading was practicable on the deeper side, 

 when fish were feeding on the shallows, and 

 cast out and over on to the shallows. Addi- 

 tional concealment is often thus afforded, and, 

 according to our experience, the best fish are 



