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slightly ruffled surface, although au observer from the 

 bridge would not fail to notice that the gradient is sharp 

 and steep. This is the ' Saghoug ' Pool. 



"Even if there were no rapid below, it would be 

 almost unnatural for a salmon not to rest here awhile, 

 as it were at some comfortable riverside inn, but the 

 fatigue and labour in ascending the torrent render 

 repose doubly welcome, with the consequence that 

 during the angling season the half-way house is always 

 tenanted. 



" The occupants of this pool, however, acquire peculiar 

 habits during their term of residence, the most annoying 

 of which is that if they touch or miss the fly they rarely 

 come a second time. 



"Upon the right-hand side of the pool, a stage has 

 been erected to facilitate casting, but in a big water it 

 is best to cast first of all from land above the structure, 

 in case fish should lie high up in the stream, and, under 

 such circumstances, the stage is an inconvenience, if 

 nothing more. 



" One day I was so casting above the stage. The 

 Hy swung round, and was just about hanging plumb, 

 when about two feet of solid back, crowned with a dorsal 

 fin, pierced the surface, and raised a pretty swirl. Instinc- 

 tively I struck hard, and found the Hy as fast as if it 

 had been in the middle of a hayrick. My 20-ft. Castle- 



