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repeatedly seen six and seven thus obtained during a night, 

 or rather, in the space of a couple of hours ; for the 

 fishes in question do not, I believe, ramble much from 

 their rocky haunts, except at night; when they are very 

 busy. We always had the best sport between twelve 

 and two o'clock. 



OF FLY-FISHING. 



This is, without doubt, the most cleanly, most pleas- 

 ing, most elegant, and most difficult part of the science I 

 The apparatus being comparatively small, renders it also- 

 less burthensome in many respects ; though the manage- 

 ment of die rod will, for a while, cause the arm to expe- 

 rience many an ache : a moderate period of practice, 

 however, soon habituates to that motion which, at the 

 first, gives some uneasiness, and furnishes to the angler a 

 certain habit (which we may be right in considering as a 

 knack}, that gives both freedom of motion, and ease 

 from weariness. 



It is remarkable, that no one has yet (or at least I have 

 not met with any publication that lias) supplied the 

 learner with such plain matter-of-fact directions, in re- 

 spect to the management of his Jly-rod, as should at once 

 enable him to cast his line out without constraint. 



The want of such indispensable instruction causes my 

 being more particular in my directions on that head ; for 

 it appears to me impossible for any person to succeed in * 

 this branch, who does not, in the first instance, acquire 

 the only true meihod of throwing the line with that inex- 

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