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v.pwards of five pounds, besides two others which 

 weighed three pounds and a half each. 



FISHER. In this I must yield you the palm. 

 I never caught one real yellow-finned burn trout 

 weighing five pounds in my life. I once, however, 

 saw one caught with a minnow, in the Eden, near 

 Salkeld, which was twenty-two inches long, and 

 weighed five pounds and a quarter ; and I knew 

 a person who took one in the Tweed, with a net, 

 which weighed nearly seven pounds. The trout, in 

 such streams in the northern counties as I am ac- 

 quainted with, are not so large as those caught in 

 the trout-streams within thirty miles of London. 

 But, to make amends, the fly-fisher there counts 

 his take by the dozen, while here he is fortunate 

 who in a day catches three " brace." I have fre- 

 quently killed four dozen in a morning, between 

 daylight and nine o'clock, and as many in the 

 evening, between four and ten. During this last 

 season, on Monday, 21st July, after a heavy rain 

 on the preceding Saturday, a friend of mine caught 

 thirteen dozen, between five in the morning and 

 three in the afternoon. He had on three flies, 

 which he never changed during the whole, replacing 

 those which he lost with others of the same kind. 

 For his stretcher he had a grouse-hackle ; for the 

 middle dropper, a fly with a brown body of bear's 

 fur, and " blea" or leaden-coloured wings ; and for 

 his highest dropper, a red hackle. 



TWEDDELL. -This is something like fishing ; but 



