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ing out of a boat on the flat face of a loch, it 

 won't compare with any wee bit mountain 

 burn, and only as a change now and then do 

 we practise it. Indeed, we rather dislike it 

 than otherwise, though the day may come 

 when one may ' needs be satisfied ' to pump- 

 handle away out of a boat. 



Keferring to Stewart's remarks as to the 

 number of flies used by some fishermen, he 

 says, ' some use a dozen.' This is, we believe, 

 principally practised on the clear upper waters 

 of the Clyde and Tweed. We have fished the 

 Clyde but never happened to see the method 

 in operation, so we are not in a position to 

 speak accurately concerning it; but it finds its 

 principal exponent and advocate inThe Angler 

 and the Loop Rod, by Mr. David Webster, who, 

 as we are informed on the title-page, has been 

 ' forty years a practitioner in this art.' In this 

 book of Tweed and Clyde there is a most use- 

 ful map of the upper reaches of these rivers, 

 giving all the reaches on which the different 

 winds blow up on Tweed and Clyde and 

 their tributaries. Not knowing, we cannot say 

 decidedly, but we think we would prefer to 

 continue as we have formerly done with four 



