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timid game. You will soon discover the most 

 likely places in which to make your main casts. 

 If the fish do not give you sufficient indication 

 of their whereabouts, by rising, your next best 

 guide will be the course given by the current (if 

 any) to their winged prey, which you will dis- 

 cern floating in regular line, or else driven by 

 the wind into sundry sheltered nooks and corners 

 behind bushes, tufts of grass, and other similar 

 places, in which you will most likely find the 

 trout at home, making a sly and quiet meal. 

 Offer him your flies for a dessert. Perhaps we 

 need hardly state that the angler should endea- 

 vour at all times to fish with the wind blowing 

 from behind him, with the view to its assistance 

 in throwing his line ; but should he at any time, 

 when fishing in that position during a sun gleam, 

 find the fish suddenly cease rising as he ap- 

 proaches, and refuse every temptation which he 

 may offer, he need be at no loss to account for 

 the circumstance, if he find the sun also at his 

 back thereby throwing his shadow and that of 

 his rod upon the river, and thus exposing all his 

 movements to the fish. We do not attach much 

 importance to the quarter whence the wind blows, 

 though in spring and autumn a south or west, 



