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with avidity, but they are seldom sought for 

 by the experienced fly-fisher. 



An excellent plan for killing Roach and 

 Dace is on a warm summer's evening, to put 

 three or four small black flies on your line and 

 fish at the tail of a mill stream, or just by the 

 froth bubbles which generally lay about piles, 

 at the end of scowers, or in eddies. A good bait 

 for heavy Dace in the Thames is a grasshopper 

 used the same as a fly. 



THE BLEAK 



ARE in season nearly all the year; they are an 

 excellent fish for initiating the young Angler 

 in the art of fly-fishing, as they rise greedily 

 at the small red and black flies ; they are a 



