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the pool. Not a rise ; not a fish moved, and he 

 came out and sat by my side. We had a pipe and 

 discoursed about " the brutes that would not rise," 

 compared our flies, and found we were fishing with 

 the same. In about twenty minutes I got up and 

 waded into the river. " What are you going to do } " 

 said he. " Fish the pool," said I. " Fash the pool ! " 

 he cried, with indignant astonishment, "why, I 

 have just fashed it, mon." " I know that, but I have 

 nothing else to do, and there is nothing like trying." 

 '' Weel, it is just labour lost." He had hardly said 

 these words when, at my second cast, up came a fish, 

 and in twenty minutes I landed a beautiful fresh-run 

 salmon of fourteen pounds. " Weel," said he, " I'd 

 raather have given you ten shilling than seen you 

 done that." " Why, you are not jealous, are you? " 

 " Ah, no, hut it is tantalising^ " Well, how do you 

 account for it ? " " Just a gleam of light at the 

 right moment, and naething else." 



When the water is very bright and clear in the 

 pools many a fish may be hooked and landed by 

 allowing the fly to sink as deep as you can, and 

 then slowly sink and draw, never bringing the fly 

 near the surface. You see a movement in the water 

 — a swirl and a twist, and your line tightens. You 

 might fish all day in such times, with the fly near 

 the surface, and never move a fish. 



