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The true salmon fisher is generally said to fish 

 with only one fly. For myself I confess the 

 bob. With two flies you need not make so great 

 an angle as is generally done, that is to say, 

 you may cast straighter across the stream ; for, 

 it often happens, your trail fly may not be 

 sufficiently cast out, and your bob falling over 

 the fish, he immediately takes it, where, had it 

 only been the bend of your line, it would but 

 have scared him. I remember once having 

 hooked a fish with the trail fly, and, as I worked 

 him up and down the pool, the bob fly dangling 

 about half a yard above the water, another 

 took it. l The pleasantest angling is to see the 

 fish cut, with her golden oars, the silver stream, 

 and greedily devour the treacherous bait.' * The 

 rise at it was very beautiful ; with the sudden 

 jerk of the line, I lost the other. They were 

 lovely, but I am sorry to add, that in their 

 deaths, they were divided, since the one, no 

 doubt, went up to Peebles, while the other went 

 into my bag, so you see I did not lose any thing 

 by having a bobber. It is a much disputed point, 

 however, much insisted on by Lord Lovat, I 

 believe. Another day, near the end of the season, 

 1 Much ado about nothing, Act iii. scene 1. 



