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Pise. Why, then, Sir, to begin methodically, as a master 

 in any art should do and I will not deny but that I think 

 myself a master in this I shall divide angling for trout or 

 grayling into these three ways : at the top, at the bottom, 

 and in the middle. Which three ways, though they are all 

 of them, as I shall hereafter endeavour to make it appear, 

 in some sort common to both those kinds of fish, yet are 

 they not so generally and absolutely so but that they will 

 necessarily require a distinction, which, in due place, I will 

 also give you. 



That which we call angling at the top, is with a fly ; at 



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