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fly after a shower that has not mudded the 

 water, yet has beat in the gnats and flies into 

 the river ; you may, in such a shower, observe 

 them to rise much, if you can endure the 

 rain. Great fish, Trout in particular, feed 

 most in the night, especially if it be dark or 

 windy, and they bite not the next day, unless 

 it proves dark or windy, and then a little in 

 the afternoon only : all fish bite keener and 

 better (especially in the summer) in swift, 

 rapid, stony, and gravelly rivers, than those 

 that run gently in slime and mud. 



In little brooks that fall into large rivers, 

 where the tide comes up only in fresh waters, 

 or waters a little brackish, if you begin at the 

 mouth of such brooks, just as the tide comes 

 in, and go up with the head of the tide, and 

 return with the ebb, you may take many good 

 Trout; and if the tide does not foul the 

 water they will rise at the fly ; or if you 

 come immediately after a shower, that ha$ 

 raised the water, or just a's any mill- water 

 begins to come down, and so proceed with 

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