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water in which the fish will rest and " take," by 

 erecting rough dams and piers made up of rocks 

 faced with great slabs of slate. In this pool, 

 and others made in a similar way, he now every 

 season gets salmon where formerly the water 

 was too shallow to be any use for salmon fishing. 

 Mr. Brandreth not only gave me his fishing, but 

 also sent his keeper, McNaghten, with me, and 

 a better or keener gillie I never fished with. He 

 knows every pool by heart, and just where the 

 fish is likely to take, if he is there, in every 

 height of water. It is a mighty rocky bit of 

 river between Pont-y-Pant and the Oak Tree 

 Pool below the Granlyn, and the queer perches 

 one has to fish from to make the fly hang pro- 

 perly over the taking spot add greatly to the 

 interest of the fishing. There were not many 

 fish in the river : in fact, Mr. Brandreth told me 

 it was one of the worst seasons he had ever 

 known long drought, and apparently few fish 

 on the coast to come in when the rain came. In 

 the Granlyn Pool, at the very tail of it, where 

 the water bends over to fall into the pool below, 

 I hooked a salmon, and had it on for perhaps a 

 couple of minutes when the fly came away. 

 Again, at the very tail of a pool above the 

 Granlyn, I had my fly taken by a fish of 10 Ib. 

 or 1 2 Ib. I called out to McNaghten that I had 

 hooked a fish, but after coming steadily for a 

 yard or two up the pool, he rolled over, and 

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