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is too bright: try a winged fly for the stretcher 

 with a greenish body. Good he has taken 

 it, and ought to be a large fish. Now we have 

 him: he is at least sixteen inches long, and in 

 good season. Ornither, I advise you to use 

 the same kind of fly, and to put up your tackle 

 precisely in the same way as Poietes has done. 



POIET. How well they rise ! At that 

 moment I had two on my line : one of them 

 is gone, but I hope I shall land the other. 



HAL. Fish with activity while the cloud 

 lasts. I fear the sun is coming out, when it 

 will be more difficult to take fish. I shall try 

 the next pool, and I advise you to follow me 

 and fish by turns, passing each other, and 

 taking different pools below, and so wend your 

 way downwards, fishing wherever you see fish 

 sporting. There is no better part of the river 

 than that pool below you, and you cannot take 

 a wrong direction. Immediately beyond Bur- 

 rington Bridge you will find two excellent 

 pools, and I advise you to go no farther down 

 to-day. If you take a fish approaching 2 Ibs., 

 keep him alive in the fish barrel for crimping ; 

 the smaller fish you can kill, and carry with 

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