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certain occasions when the fly fished down- 

 stream pays best, without attempting to give 

 the reason. 



This is really a digression, undertaken in the 

 interest of historical truth. Upstream fishing 

 is firmly enthroned and will not be unseated. 

 But the downstream method is used to-day to 

 a much greater extent than books or newspaper 

 articles might lead you to suppose. The wheel 

 has turned, and whereas in the two centuries 

 before Stewart men fished upstream but did not 

 talk about it, so they practise a similar reticence 

 to-day about downstream fishing. 



