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it sink for eight or ten inches. You will not 

 see a rise, but a slight curl in the water, which 

 by little practice you will understand quite as 

 well, and when you strike, you will have the 

 pleasure of finding a pounder or more tugging 

 away at the end of your line. This is the real 

 secret in grayling-fishing; and I have often 

 filled my basket, while eight or ten other fish- 

 ermen on the water, using the very same flies, 

 have not managed to kill a decent dish 

 amongst them all." 



This method of fishing for grayling in still 

 water by sinking the flies, is also recommended 

 by the Editor of the Literary Gazette as a 

 killing way for trout. That celebrated writer 

 says, " We have dragged out fine trout as fast 

 as we could throw our line, when the fly, from 

 their incessant biting, was reduced to the bare 

 hook, and the hackle-feather fastened merely 

 at the shank. A very favourite and successful 

 practice of ours was, to fish in a part of the 

 river where others seldom thought of, in the 

 dead still water, imitating a drowned fly, and 

 using very fine tackle : here we have filled 

 our baskets with the best trout, whilst others 

 have thrashed the stream in vain." 



It would be quite unpardonable in us to give 

 the lie direct to the assertions of those gentle- 

 men, particularly when they relate to facts 



