EXPERIENCES WITH "BOB' 75 



would be there, and, with a little more fluster, 

 perhaps, because the big trout found he was being 

 led to destruction, quiet, shallow water would be 

 reached, and " Bob," reeling up, would use his net, 

 not caring to risk a break by trailing so heavy a fish 

 actually out of the water. 



Leaving this deep bank " Bob " would again start 

 working rather higher up the shallow side of the 

 same glide, repeating his former tactics, with 

 perhaps a yard or two more line out, right across to 

 the deep edge again. Here, as if by ordered 

 design, other outposts would be held, as of right, 

 by fresh fish, which had not, so far, been alarmed. 

 Any of these, tempted by " Bob's " spiders, would be 

 given shorter shrift still, and very few of them would 

 be allowed, before being netted, to get as far as 

 the rough stream below. 



There were long stretches of flattish but gently 

 moving water under woody banks, where the 

 branches of the newly clad trees hung well over 

 the river. One particular stretch of this kind was 

 always a killing place. The water ran deep by the 

 right-hand bank going up, but shallowed gradually 

 to not more than nine or ten inches deep by the 

 left bank, under the trees, at low water. These 

 trees were wych elms, standing on a highish bank 

 with long spreading branches from the very bottom 



