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downwards. If a fish is thus struck there need 

 be no fear of breaking even the lightest tackle. 

 In striking from the reel there is every chance of 

 losing a fish, though the probability of a smash, in 

 the hands of a duffer, may be lessened ; for when a 

 fish is struck from the reel, for a second the line 

 is slackened, and many a fish, if at all light-hooked, 

 will take advantage of this opportunity, short 

 though it may be, to run in towards the fisherman 

 and get off. Who that knows the Kimbridge 

 trout has not experienced what a fish can do in 

 the way of giving one the slip ? 



The foregoing remarks apply only to trout and 

 grayling, and not to salmon fishing. 



