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are landed in the first hour or two, there is no 

 reason to be disappointed ; all these are so much 

 to the good : the real rise must not be expected 

 till eleven o'clock or later, and any slackness of 

 sport, at any rate up to twelve o'clock, need 

 not be regarded as prejudicing in the least the 

 prospects of the day. Presently the signs of life, 

 both of flies and trout, will be evident enough, 

 and then the true test will begin. There are 

 days when the trout will rise everywhere and 

 take badly, but a very short time will show 

 whether this is such a day or not. If the rise 

 is really a good one, and choice of water can be 

 made without interfering with the sport of any 

 one else, the angler should so have arranged 

 matters that he is now, as the rise is beginning, 

 not far from a really good pool, which has 

 not yet been fished. At such times I prefer 

 a good stream at the head of a long deep 

 pool to any other place. A heavy basket may 

 be made, especially if there is some ripple, 

 on broad shallow reaches of a good river 

 where trout are plentiful, but there is more 

 chance of an unusually large trout where there 

 is deep water not far away, and there is a 



