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stration to persuade anglers to fish, up, we have no 

 doubt numbers will adhere to their own way. As 

 no amount of mere argument will convince such, we 

 offer to find two anglers, who in a water suitable 

 for showing the superiority of fishing up, will be 

 more successful than any three anglers fishing down 

 after the ordinary method. 



We have just given the same reasons for fishing 

 up stream as in our first edition, because upon this 

 point there can be nothing new ; and are as ready 

 as ever to find anglers who are prepared to do 

 battle on their behalf, on the terms just stated ; 

 but while one or two have come forward to dispute 

 the theory, none have accepted our challenge and 

 come forward to dispute the practice. One reviewer 

 the only objector we recollect of who gives a 

 reason says, " that so long as streams run down, 

 carrying the food of the fish with them, so long 

 should anglers fish down." This seems said purely 

 for the sake of appearing to give a reason ; and 

 while his premises are undeniably correct, we en- 

 tirely dissent from his conclusions. Streams cer- 

 tainly run down and carry the food of the trout 

 with them, but along with that food they do not 

 carry an apparition in the shape of an angler with 

 rod and line upon the bank ; and as nothing will 

 familiarise them to such an apparition, we draw 

 the conclusion that that apparition had better keep 

 out of sight and fish up stream. Moreover, the fact 

 that the natural food floats down is anything but 



