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CHAPTER IV. 



IN the foregoing pages, our remarks have been 

 generally directed to certain points which affect 

 each particular mode of fishing, almost equally, 

 and having thus taken a hasty view of our subject 

 as an Art, it will be necessary to retrace our 

 extended steps, and, by pausing on such parts of 

 our subject as require more particular explanations, 

 to dilate on the details of each style of practice of 

 our craft. Such points of detail will alone be 

 dwelt on as experience suggests, to aid the novice, 

 or stimulate the fisherman whose knowledge of 

 fishing depends on observations acquired on large 

 and quiet streams, and not on rapid brooks and 

 streamlets. I trust our time will not be un- 

 profitably occupied in considering separately the 

 mode of using the different baits before alluded 

 to, and going so far into the minutiae of the sub- 

 ject as seems to be practically beneficial, and in 

 so doing, we will endeavour to keep our minds 

 on the river, to sum up the actual experience of 

 work, and enumerate special difficulties which 

 practical acquaintance with the rod and line can 

 alone afford. The results of labour thus given may, 



