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be classed as a " water " suddenly altering 

 its character and beginning to flow (no 

 longer in alternate pool and stream and in 

 alternate deep and shallow, but narrow, 

 deep, and sluggish, with overhanging clay 

 banks, burrowed out by the winter's floods), 

 there will the wet-fly fisherman find that he 

 has got to exercise the virtue of patience ; 

 for such stretches are as uncertain as an 

 April day. Whereas, in a typical Scottish 

 river, when trout are not rising in the deep 

 places, we can always fish the shallower 

 portions, and with sometimes very con- 

 siderable results too. 



Being a wet-fly fisherman, I therefore 

 plump for a river such as these I have 

 generally succeeded best in the Tweed, 

 Teviot, Tummel, Deveron, Cumberland 

 Eden, and several others. In all the three 

 last mentioned I have had excellent sport. 

 The free waters of the Tweed and Teviot 

 of late years have been so over-fished, that 

 I have generally gone further a-field for my 

 annual fishing trip (from Brighton). 



Of course I have fished other rivers for 

 one, the Eibble, near Chatburn, with my 

 late brother ; but so long ago now, that I 

 remember very little of it. I have fished 

 the Don the last time in 1864 the Tay 



