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find it below. Not to disappoint him, the angler 

 drops it immediately at the edge of the white 

 water, where it usually meets with a vicious 

 reception. Should all not come off as planned, 

 the fly may be cast again above the boulder and 

 retrieved as before. The fish may be tempted 

 to dart out and seize it after a dozen or more 

 casts. If hooked, he will come over the fall to 

 be dealt with in the smoother water below, and 

 the angler will not have missed the picture, 

 after all. 



Native trout rarely occupy such positions, 

 but they should never be overlooked in streams 

 known to contain brown or rainbow trout. 



Sometimes a short stretch of smooth, swift 

 water will be found sweeping silently along the 

 mossy bank just above the sentinel boulders at 

 the head of the white water. The bank is 

 probably shaded by overhanging rhododendron, 

 or alder growth, that lends to the water a pe- 

 culiar, greenish hue. This stretch may be oc- 

 cupied by fine fish that, because of some effect 

 of light or shade, seem better able to detect the 

 approach of an angler or the connection of the 

 leader with the fly than do fish in similar waters 

 unshaded. A longer line is necessary here, and 

 great care should be exercised to refrain, as far 



