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should move farther up-stream, because no 

 really big feeding fish need be looked for 

 where small ones are: vice versa, little fish rarely 

 feed in the same place and at the same time as 

 big ones. If no rise is seen, the task then is to 

 locate the fish, and, under the favourable con- 

 ditions prevailing, it may be fairly assumed that 

 they are ready to feed. There will be one place 

 in the flat where more surface food collects than 

 in any other, and one place where more comes 

 down-stream because of converging currents. 

 In one of such places the biggest fish will be 

 found. 



Wherever an eddy swirls gently against a 

 small cove in the bank, or the force of the cur- 

 rent spends itself against a rock, making a dead 

 water or backwater above it, the fly may 

 search and find many fine trout. If the back- 

 water at the head of the stretch is of an area 

 great enough to collect and hold the foam made 

 by the tumbling water, this is the spot from 

 which the angler may hope to secure one of the 

 best fish in the pool, if not the best. One of the 

 favourite feeding positions of a large trout is 

 under this foam, and the fly, placed carefully 

 again and again, often tempts him to move into 

 his feeding position when, at the beginning of 



