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country, where our streams are, for the most 

 part, swift and broken with rapids. Always, 

 no matter how swift, we can find little glassy 

 pools where the water sucks down under an over- 

 hanging bank, just below up-reaching rocks, etc., 

 etc. Study the surface of any stream for a mo- 

 ment and you will discover many spots just wait- 

 ing for your fly. One advantage of such fish- 

 ing is that the broken water between you and 

 the little pool or eddy effectually cuts off the 

 vision of the keen-sighted trout. While there is 

 great sport in "stalking the fish," as is the Eng- 

 lish method, this modification of the art to Ameri- 

 can needs also calls for much skill, as the angler 

 must be a past-master of the art of casting in 

 order to hit the little opening. Undoubtedly the 

 proper method is to fish upstream, but we have 

 many creeks so swift that to do so is an absolute 

 impossibility; then, follow down and cast ahead 

 of you it will work grandly. I have one bit of 

 superstition which has no reason in it: when I 

 see a bit of milky water below rocks or close in- 

 shore I always feel that it conceals a fish, and 

 it generally does. Now laugh ! 



We have been talking about tackle almost 

 since we first began this chapter, and to devote 

 a separate paragraph to the subject seems super- 



