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better not practising 'Quixotic exercises/ 

 In a heavy down-stream wind it is not a 

 pleasing or edifying exercise ' throwing back 

 expletives at the rough-tongued winds ! ' any 

 more than it is satisfactory to ' kick against 

 the pricks.' In such weather it is better 

 to search out the few bends and reaches 

 where the wind blows locally up, as in fly- 

 fishing. Under these conditions we grant, 

 if one is determined to fish, a thirteen-foot 

 stiff rod and a heavier line is an advantage ; 

 but it becomes a regular f poling' match, unless 

 it can be wielded by one hand comfortably. 

 We have not experience of steel-centred rods 

 and lines. Of course, if an angler has only 

 an odd holiday to devote to fishing, then he 

 is right to ' pole.' 



In a heavy down-stream wind the worm 

 travels at ' railway speed,' owing to the com- 

 bined influence of wind-drag and water-drag. 

 Such is inevitable ; and, as in good up-stream 

 worming as little of the line as possible 

 should be in the water, even under the 

 best conditions, any one may conceive how 

 impossible it must be to preserve the same, 

 when all the conditions are adverse. Lower 



