Xll GENERAL REMARKS 



express rules, 1 will endeavour to give him 

 general hints which may be of service to him : 

 deep still-looking holes, with a sluggish stream 

 and a small eddy, especially when accompanied 

 with a sandy or gravelly bottom ; mill tails ; 

 deeps at the end of some scower or shallow ; 

 about piles ; under the foam caused by a mill ; 

 under overhanging banks where the water is 

 still and deep ; by the entrance of small streams 

 or ditches; in the still water caused by the 

 division of two streams ; these are usually good 

 spots to fish in, but we must request the young 

 Angler to observe for himself, and should he by 

 accident hit upon a good spot and fill his pannier, 

 let him attend well to the peculiarity of it, 

 for the habits of fish are generally the 

 same in one river as another. Be particular 

 also to mark the situation in which you have 



