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with light tackle such as this, but you 

 may tow a jackass down stream with 

 jack-tackle ; or, as the " Young Angler's 

 Instructor " acutely observes, " you can 

 only lose him by not giving him time." 



J. A friend of mine never fishes with 

 more than one fly at a time. What think 

 you of the practice ? This fish, you see, 

 took my bob-fly, and in his floundering and 

 plunging I feared the other would become 

 entangled. 



S. Mr. Penn, who, in his u Maxims 

 and Hints,*" has given us some of the best 

 instructions on trout- fishing, has a remark 

 on the subject which is a good answer to 

 all that has been said. " The learned," says 

 he, " are much divided in opinion as to 

 the propriety of whipping with two flies 

 or with one. I am humbly of opinion 

 that your chance of hooking fish is much 

 increased by your using two flies, but I 

 think that by only using one you increase 



