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the angler has to find out where they are, and if 

 he does not get them at once in what he knows 

 to be favourite places, he had better try other 

 parts of the river at some distance. He should 

 always remember, however, that the fish may be 

 in the pools he has already tried and may come 

 to the fly later, and that it is easy to waste a 

 whole day in running about without giving any 

 part of the river a thorough trial. There is a 

 tendency in sea trout fishing to spend time in 

 trying to make sure where the biggest fish are. 

 It is well to be on one's guard against this, and 

 to remain where one meets with the first success, 

 or where fish are seen. When a river is high 

 and coloured the fish do not, as a rule, show 

 themselves much by splashing or jumping, but 

 whenever and wherever sea trout do show them- 

 selves in this way, it is an invaluable help to the 

 angler, whose first object is to fish where the 

 fish are, and whose great difficulty often is to be 

 sure that he is doing this. What a contrast this 

 is after a Hampshire chalk stream, where one 

 comes to have an idea of the number and size 

 of the trout in each meadow, and how much it 

 adds to the wildness and hard work of fishing ! 



