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a quarter of an inch above the shank of the other ; impale 

 your captive, the lower hook through the body below the 

 thorax, and the upper through the " chest "; fish a long fine 

 collar, and there you are. You must wade quietly up-stream 

 and cast very gently or you and your creeper will part to 

 meet no more. In a fine water the creeper will sink sufficiently 

 of itself, in a slightly swollen river you may use a single shot. 

 Cast your bait into the necks of little streams and let it go 

 trundling down with the current ; if it stops in its onward 

 course, just wait a wink, and then strike. Cast also on the 

 thins at the edges of streams, and in all other places where 

 your eye tells you trout are on the look-out for stray 

 creepers. 



GOOD TROUT FISHING. 



Among the questions most frequently put to editors of 

 angling papers is " Where can I get some decent trout 

 fishing at a moderate cost ?" Ideas of what is decent trout 

 fishing, and what is moderate cost, vary considerably. I 

 hear, for instance, of a quartette of friends who have been 

 flogging the streams in the county Wicklow. They got 

 five hundred trout in four days, and now they are making 

 an Irish grievance of it that they did not catch more, or 

 that the fish were not larger, or something or other. You 

 remember the boy with the porridge ; he sat behind " them " 

 (though why porridge should always be plural I am sure I 

 do not know any more than why every dog should be a 

 " poor old fellow" from the first day he is a pup), and made 

 very little headway beyond a series of wry faces. " What 

 is the matter ?" said his father. " Why, they are salt and 

 they are sour, and they are burnt and they are raight 

 nasty, and there isn't enough of 'em." But what is decent 

 trout fishing ? I know two enthusiastic anglers, members 

 of a well-known association, who, having tried the water 

 and fished for several days, came back with the deliberate 



