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made of four or five or six hairs, and the Traun, at 

 Gmiinden, where they are not allowed to fish ; the 

 fish that rose took with much more certainty at 

 Gmiinden than at Ischl. At a time when many 

 flies are on, particularly large ones, a few days of 

 continuous fishing, even with a single rod, will soon 

 make the sport indifferent in the best rivers; but 

 the larger and the deeper the river, the longer it 

 continues, because fish change their stations occa- 

 sionally, and pricked fish sometimes leave their 

 haunts, which are occupied by others ; and graylings 

 are more disposed to change their places than trouts. 

 As instances of the difference in this respect 

 between large and small rivers, I may quote the 

 Yockla and the Agger in Upper Austria. The 

 first of these rivers, when I fished in it in 1818, 

 was full of trout and grayling, and I believe I was 

 the first person, for at least many years, that had 

 ever thrown an artificial fly upon it. It is a small 

 stream, from eight to fifteen yards wide, and can 

 every where be commanded by the double-handed 

 rod, arid is generally shallow. The first day that 

 I fished in this stream, which was in the beginning 

 of August, at every throw I hooked a fish, and I 

 took out and restored again to their element in 

 the course of a few hours more than one hundred 

 and fifty trout and grayling. The next day I 



