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pool is breaking off at the foot into another 

 stream, and when the flood is subsiding after 

 rain, are the best times, using brandling worms 

 and small lob worms. This was my favourite 

 way of catching trout when a boy. 



PIKE. 



The Pike is a rough customer (if large) to 

 come across, and the tackle which is required 

 to catch him is as rough and as terrible as him- 

 self; he will take almost anything that is 

 thrown to him if moved in the water he haunts. 

 Eoving with the minnow using a float, is, I 

 think, the nicest way of fishing for him in deep 

 places, but he is oftener taken by spinning, or 

 trolling the gorge bait, tackle which is well 

 known to every angler. 



The pike take the larger double hook gaudy 

 fly, in deep running places, beyond the weeds, 

 when there is a stiff breeze blowing and small 

 close rain falling, and at no other time will he 

 look at a fly ; it is useless to try unless in a 

 rapid stream, which is an unusual place for 

 him to haunt in general. Autumn is the best 



