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well over and a little down. Draw in as gently as 

 you may. Immediately after or during a spate is 

 the time ; fish are soon on to the next pool. How- 

 ever, I once got as many as three fish from here 

 in a little more than an hour. 



LlME-KlLN POOL. 



This is a very good pool and has always a fish 

 or two, and sometimes many. It may be fished 

 from the bank with ease. Begin at the very top, 

 where the water sets off from the rocks. You can 

 cast across. Search every inch and do not move 

 from your first standing until you have fished as far 

 and as carefully as you can. If you get no success, 

 change your bait rather than move farther down 

 the pool as yet. I have taken fish here with my 

 third or fourth bait, when a less patient angler 

 would have been exposing himself to view by 

 walking on the rock. I cross the rock on my 

 hands and knees and, if necessary, go back over 

 the four baits in this second cast. When hooked, 

 fish seldom leave this pool, so do not haul at them 

 to breaking strain. Be patient, and they will be 

 yours. 



OAK TREE POOL. 



This pool is some eighty yards above, and quite 

 a miniature affair, about six feet deep when in ply. 

 The water eddies round under the oak, and it is 



