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good practice with a red quill on a No. 00 hook over 

 almost continuously rising fish, taking pale olives 

 and a darker- winged fly, and within an hour two- 

 brace of lOin. to 15 in. grayling were brought to 

 bank. Further on, after passing over a rickety and 

 slippery hatchway board, several simultaneous 

 dimples broke the surface in mid-stream, three of 

 which were cast over with good result, a leash 

 coming to grief, all lO-^-in. grayling. Then under 

 the opposite bank, which the utmost power of my 

 lift, split- cane rod and right arm could barely 

 reach, the unmistakable splash of a large grayling 

 arrested my progress. Many casts were essayed 

 before the fly fell a foot before his nose, but then 

 he seized it and was firmly hooked. Instantly he 

 scurried down stream, zigzagging and furrowing 

 the surface, until he was masterfully restrained, 

 and afterwards soon landed a fish of 1-^lb. I 

 had now only ten minutes to spare, but at four 

 o'clock another grayling was landed, making up 

 four and a half brace killed in two and a half hours, 

 and an aggregate of thirty-one fish in ten hours. 



