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Always try such spots carefully, or you may miss the 

 fish altogether ; and yet if you take one, you may, by 

 sticking to the same locality, catch a dozen or more. I 

 once caught twenty-four in two days from under the apron 

 of Hampton Court weir, out of only two bays. The biggest 

 take I ever had with a friend (Mr. Mayor of the Stock 

 Exchange) was three hundredweight. Metropolitan pike- 

 fishers will probably guess where that Groshen for pike was. 

 We turned back forty fish that weighed under five pounds 

 each, keeping no fish below that weight, and still we took 

 home about a hundredweight and a half, the fish running 

 eight and ten and up to seventeen pounds. I shall never 

 have such another day. 



