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a reason that the artificial lure in imitation of that 

 food should be pulled up. 



We must confess, however, that fishing up 

 stream with fly has not been adopted by a large 

 portion of the angling community, and that for 

 various reasons. In spite of the strong manner in 

 which we cautioned our readers about the diffi- 

 culties of fishing up stream, numbers who read the 

 arguments for it, and were struck with the sound- 

 ness of the theory, thought they saw at a glance 

 the cause of their previous want of success, and 

 that in future the result would be different. Hav- 

 ing equipped themselves a la Practical Angler, and 

 even taken a copy of that excellent work in their 

 pockets, they started with high hopes on their 

 new career, but the result was not different, and 

 after one or two trials with no better success, not 

 a few have condemned fishing up stream as errone- 

 ous and ourselves as impostors ; though we imagine 

 the fault lies with themselves. We have met 

 anglers fishing down stream and this is no sup- 

 posititious case, but one which we have seen over 

 and over again with a copy of this volume in 

 their pockets, who complained that they had got 

 everything herein recommended and were getting 

 no sport. On pointing out to them that there was 

 one important mistake they were committing, in 

 fishing down stream instead of up, they stated that 

 when they came to a pool they fished it up that 

 is to say, they first walked down the pool and 



