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have I cast over a fish risin_^ at the natural fly time after time, and 

 he would not look at me, but very rarely have I ever risen one 

 which has missed me and given him a minute or two to settle and 

 think the matter over, without, on going over him again, either 

 getting him or, anyhow, rising him a second time. 



'GOT HIM!" 



At such times as these minnowing and shrimping should be made, 

 as Jorrocks said of coursing, "felony." The fish don't want such 

 baits, and they only disturb the pool ; while, of course, there are 

 some clumsy-handed anglers who can only jerk a minnow or a prawn 

 off a Mallock reel. 



The father of the minnow on the Dee, if I may so describe him, 

 w^as Mr. Digby Cayley, and, although the first I ever saw fish, he was 



