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equality of its aquatic attributes, give it, in the 

 opinion of many, a more monotonous character so 

 far as angling is concerned than that of flowing 

 waters. But in truth it is not so. Your green and 

 grassy banks your gravelly shores your deep in- 

 dented bays your salient points your solitary 

 crags your groups of giant stones your fringing 

 woods and babbling mouths of clear translucent 

 streamlets what would you more ? attest the pro- 

 digality of nature, 



" Wild without rule or art, 

 Enormous bliss." 



The general principles which regulate the practice 

 of the angler's art, are here the same as those avail- 

 able in running waters. The flies, however, are 

 usually of larger size ; and as to the particular 

 kinds, a yellow professor with a warmish wing, 

 a reddish hackle with deep coloured teal or mallard 

 wing, and a twist or two of tinsel round the tail, a 

 green mantle with paler wing than the professor, 

 these three are like faith, hope, and charity to fishes. 

 In angling from a boat, paddle your craft gently 

 within a range of fifty or sixty yards from shore, 

 and cast your line towards the land, fishing for that 

 purpose rather along the lee- shore than the wind- 

 ward side, if local circumstances such as the ad- 

 mitted superiority of one margin of a loch over 

 another do not render an opposite course advis- 

 able. And here, as in river fishing, consists the ad- 

 vantage of experience, not in the general principles 

 alone of angling, but in its practice in relation to 



