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would move on to the rocky corner beyond, which 

 is exceptionally good ; here more than once we 

 have had the pleasure of hooking and holding two 

 trout at one and the same cast, and quite an exciting 

 event that is. 



From this point onwards the pools are fewer in 

 number and farther apart, so that we find it easy 

 to remember their names Water-meetings, Nun- 

 nerie, AUershaw, The Bend, Watergate, and Winter- 

 cleuch, great names and great pools, all easily 

 negotiated and all well stocked. 



These pools that we have mentioned are all 

 ideal parts for dry-fly fishing ; on them that is the 

 most efficient lure at most times, and specially 

 when waters are low ; a wind fairly strong from the 

 right direction is all that is necessary to make it 

 extremely deadly. Above them all we prefer The 

 Bend, a long narrow pool that slips along with barely 

 perceptible current. The right bank is a steep 

 gravel bed, while the left is low and grassy, but 

 and this is the reason of the pool's excellence it 

 is also much undermined. On any given day we 

 probably take more trout from each of the other 

 pools, but we always approach The Bend with cau- 

 tion and expectation, for great events are always 

 possible there. All the trout in it are grand fish, 

 and there is always one at least, the capture of which 

 would make a season memorable. 



To see these trout on a summer evening rising 

 along the grassy bank in that quiet manner which 

 scarcely betrays, and which many might fail to 

 observe, makes us halt to test the cast and examine 

 the fly. The water is absolutely calm and still ; 

 no kindly breeze assists, there is not even the eddy 



