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be the best basket of yellow trouts he had ever 

 seen. There can be no doubt that there are 

 many smaller streams and burns, which supple- 

 ment the Don, and which would well repay the 

 angler, but, if permission is to be first asked and 

 obtained before you have leave to fish them, 

 why, is it not better to apply at once for the 

 larger favour ? I never had any pleasure in 

 burn fishing, let the trouts be ever so large and 

 plenty, for who would ploutter in the Gady, or 

 others like it, if they could obtain the glorious 

 Don. I delight in a large stream and a good 

 extent of cast, and, as a rule, I should say, 

 especially in salmon fishing, those who can fling 

 out the most extent of line are those who do 

 best say fifty feet from the top of the rod. It 

 stands to reason ; they cover by far the widest 

 angle and extent of water fished. Salmon, 

 I should say, insist on the fly being given to 

 them in a particular way ; you must throw it 

 beyond the middle of the stream, else there will 

 be little success with them. Their great temp- 

 tation is to see the fly swirl round, or come from 

 the bank over the middle of the stream ; in 

 that case, you must throw a long line. Nearly 

 all the Don can be well commanded in this way, 



