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must in practice constantly be varied to suit the 

 place fished. For instance, it may be impossible 

 to cast under the near or the far bank owing to 

 obstacles, or a shorter or longer line may be 

 expedient. There may be a few wide spots where 

 more line is desirable than can be readily used in 

 the backward swing, in which case, if the fisher- 

 man can gauge his distance correctly, the back- 

 ward swing can be made with a short line, and 

 some slack, held in the left fingers, can be released 

 and shot through the rings as the forward cast 

 straightens out, sufficient to cover the distance. 

 But the majority of the parts of a brook call 

 for more than passing mention, and may be 

 described as follows. Shallow and deeper stickles 

 of more or less length and moderate speed ; 

 stronger confined runs opening out quietly below ; 

 pools of broken water with cascades falling in ; 

 bank swirls, some of which deepen into pools 

 under foliage on one or both sides ; flats of slow 

 motion or occasionally none, formed by de- 

 pressions or dams ; deeps of still water among 

 bushes ; separate small stickles where a stream 

 divides ; narrow ' guts ' moving slowly ; quick 

 stickles broken by small depressions ; and last, 

 but not least, road-bridge pools. In all of these 

 places obstacles of some sort may be expected, 



