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manage wvll, success will generally crown your effort*. 

 In this way you will probably fall in with chuls ; espe- 

 cially under banks bordered with osiers, &c. where the 

 water is deep and strong. 



You cannot be too cautious in regard to keeping com- 

 pletely out of sight, and preventing your rod from moving 

 unnecessarily. The spring is the best season for the fly j 

 during summer the trouts will take worms, minnows, 

 and every kind of good bait that is properly tendered to 

 them j especially after afresh. 



Of the Shedder, or Chedder, or Samson, or Gravling. 



There is a motley tribe of fishes, which are known in 

 various parts by all the above different names -, and indeed 

 by many more 5 but these are the most general. Not only 

 anglers, but naturalists, have been somewhat puzzled 

 how to class them ; for they are very various in their 

 marks, are seldom found with roe, and appear to asso- 

 ciate as though of one species. 



They cannot be brought to any particular standard 5 

 for they are evidently of many different kinds. The most 

 general opinion seems to be, that they are the young of 

 the salmon and of the trout in their several varieties. 

 Their being about four to six inches long, when they first 

 appear in the spring, and their being sometimes four or five 

 ounces weight in the latter end of the season, when some 

 contain roe, seem to favour this opinion ; especially as they 

 are in the first instance, destitute of those beautiful spots, 

 which come out upon them as the summer advances. 



Whatever they are, the angler will find very pretty 

 pastime in whipping for them on the scours, with very 

 fine tackle; using small black flies, on hooks No. 7, or 



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