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drawing the end of the line quickly through your 

 hand, particularly if you do not wear gloves." 

 It is scarcely necessary to add that, if the result of 

 such an experiment sufficiently explain the cause 

 of failure, you will have no cause to regret having 

 made it; if it do not, it will at all events tend 

 much to enliven the dull intervals of no sport. 



Night-flies, whether large or small, should be 

 fished in gently flowing streams, in the necks and 

 tails of pools, and at the channel as well as at the 

 bank side of pools of moderate depth ; but no rapid 

 water will yield sport to the artificial fly after dusk. 

 The angler must always fish down-stream at night, 

 casting down and across ; the necessity for fishing 

 up does not exist when daylight is gone : and as 

 trout take the lure more leisurely at night than 

 during the day, the fisher should allow the flies to 

 be carried gently and slowly round to his own side 

 of the stream. He will generally fish from the 

 bank side when the river is low and clear ; the 

 channel and the shallow stretches are best when 

 the water is black : but large trout are often found 

 at night roaming about at both sides, and circum- 

 stances must therefore determine very much the 

 angler's mode of action. 



If I hook a small trout when fishing from the 

 bank, and if I cannot get down to the margin of 

 the water, I bring him close to the side, and taking 



