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rock which is shown in the photo, where your gillie 

 will be waiting to relieve you of further anxiety by 

 successfully gaffing him. 



I will hope that you may be thus fortunate in, 

 possibly, your first effort in a pulpit, and that your 

 first success may be followed by a second, and that 

 so you may be like the naughty little boy whom I 

 met early one morning as I was going fishing down 

 south, and who was whistling merrily. 



I ventured to remark to him that he had been 

 lucky to find such a fine whistle so early in the 

 morning. " Ay," said he, "I be a lucky chap, I be. 

 I've been lucky twice this marning ; virst I vound 

 a whistle and now I've vound a vool to listen 

 to 'un." 



A day, or part of a day, spent at this spot, 

 seeing what I have seen, causes me to make careful 

 mental notes so as to be able to classify my efforts 

 and judge when all possible has been done to 

 delude, not only the hungry, but also the coy, the 

 shy and the undecided. 



To be a successful salmon fisher you must first 

 catch patience, and next bear in mind that at the 

 very root of the first principles of the art lies the 

 necessity of showing the bait to the fish while 

 keeping the^ attachments thereto quite unseen by 

 them. 





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