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certainly feel the slightest jar in the water 

 caused by a heavy tread on the bank) ; and 

 actually, for about two hours in the middle 

 of the day, there came an intermittent rise of 

 a largish yellow-winged fly, not unlike a small 

 May Fly ; with it there must have been some 

 other insect invisible to us, at which there 

 came an uncertain rise of trout. Curiously 

 enough, they would rarely look at this big 

 yellow fly, allowing it to float on, but rising 

 at the invisible one. 



Acting on Piscator's advice, I began by 

 casting with a " Wickham's Fancy," and I was 

 delighted to find the trout seemed greatly to 

 prefer this fanciful imitation to the real live 

 thing which fluttered on above them. Thus 

 for about two hours, say from one to three, 

 the rise was a fairly good one. During that 

 short time I may say that I experienced what 

 is becoming the fashion to call some " psychic " 

 moments. I had twelve of them in all, besides 

 many minor ones. I hooked and played with 

 twelve fair trout. I lost seven of them, but five 

 found their way into my bag. If you reckon 

 up the time in casting over and over each 

 of those twelve trout, hooking them all and 



