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tail to head. In fishing confined narrow rushes 

 of rather fast water (having first tried their 

 open-out below), keep the worm in mid-stream 

 only, and cast it upstream as far as can be 

 managed, as it will be hurried down. It will not, 

 however, escape the vision of a fish or two in 

 position at either side. Pools into which cascades 

 fall are very likely places, and some have fair 

 depth with broken, froth-chequered surface and 

 eddying sides. Do not be tempted by the fall : 

 try the tail and near side first, next the centre, and 

 then under the far bank, by degrees up to the 

 fall, the sides of which are more likely to be 

 remunerative than immediately under it. Bank 

 swirls are places where the whole volume of the 

 stream is confined to one side or the other, and 

 they are deepest at the bank edge of whichever 

 side that is. Should the bank be free from 

 obstacles, fish them up gradually from the tail, 

 but instead of first dropping the worm, if at the 

 angler's side, close to that side, try the easier 

 edge of the swirl first, before the deeper water. 

 If the swirl is at the opposite bank, adopt the 

 same tactics. But most of these places are so 

 encumbered by hanging brambles that they 

 demand downstream fishing ; but of that later 

 on. In some cases swirls, and, for that matter, 



