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forth into the river as clear as crystal even when in 

 flood. 



At the present time the Evanger river is, by different 

 tenancies, divided into four portions, the first and third 

 being those I have fished. The second and fourth I only 

 know by having walked down them ; but, by the method 

 the tenants employ in fishing them, I should imagine 

 they are essentially harling waters, and yield a fair number 

 of fish, which are chiefly obtained in the lower water 

 during the early part of the season. 



I have now cleared the way to deal with the first and 

 third portions. The upper water for the first quarter of 

 a mile of its course is merely a useless rapid, unfishable 

 except in very low water, but a fish or two have been killed 

 in it ; below this ravine the railway crosses the stream, and 

 the river at once widens out into a large pool. a couple 

 of hundred yards long, ornamented by foliage upon both 

 banks. The stream enters the pool with such force that 

 for a considerable distance the water swirls and surges 

 in such queer fashion as to render it impossible for fish 

 and angler alike ; but, later on, it subsides into orderly 

 behaviour, and runs from deep to shallow, affording 

 comfortable resting places for fish, and terminates in a 

 swiftly-running head, a favourite resort for those who 

 have ascended the rough water below and the fair-sized 

 foss beyond it. 



