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separate character of its own about a pool, which 

 is attractive and gives a sort of personality to 

 it. One such comes often to my memory. It 

 is a pool in a north country river, just large 

 enough to hold salmon, yet not so broad that 

 the best of it cannot be fished easily with a 

 single-handed rod by wading ; one bank is the 

 edge of a grass field, the other is fringed with 

 bushes, and the stream slopes from the field 

 towards the bushes. The rough broken water 

 at the top is fairly shallow, and full of good 

 trout when they are feeding. There are special 

 places at the edge of the bushes in which to 

 make a point of throwing a fly after the nearer 

 part of the stream has been fished. Each trout 

 that is hooked fights desperately for the shelter 

 of the bushes, or for the deeper water below, 

 and the angler may work slowly down, rising, 

 hooking and landing fish of all sizes, till he 

 gets into deep and quite smooth water. On a 

 good day a dozen trout at least, none of them 

 less than a quarter of a pound and one or two 

 weighing one pound each or upwards may be 

 expected from this piece of water alone. 



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