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good bag out of that one field. The same thing 

 happened with ducks at the loch the other day. 



An easy walk of a mile or so brought us home ; 

 and a bath and an hour's rest was a real luxury 

 after the rough hot ramble over so much ground. 



"When dinner was over, fish and fishing were 

 talked of, to Fred's satisfaction. 



Ward and Major Duncan are great sticklers for 

 nicety in shade and colour of flies ; at which I 

 demurred, as I have faith only in shape or size, 

 constantly finding that, on the same day, fish go 

 on taking the most dissimilar fiies, and in my 

 own practice I seldom find any good in chang- 

 ing my fly, except it be for another, larger or 

 smaller. 



Stoddart (who himself was always nice in his choice 

 of flies) mentions a crack Tweed angler who always 

 used white flies, in the belief that fish could not, 

 from the position of the fly between them and the 

 sky, observe colour; and Stoddart allows he killed 

 as well as others who thought differently. Be that 

 as it may, it is almost an axiom with practised 

 fishers, that salmon and sea-trout do like tinsel and 

 glitter in the lures, while yellow trout are better 

 fished with plain flies, and these generally small ones. 



