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and let your first dropper fly be about three 

 feet from the stretcher and from the other 

 dropper, and let the hanging link which 

 attaches them be 3| inches long. 



PHYS. There are several fish rising: I 

 shall throw at that opposite he appears 

 large. 



HAL. It is a trout and not a grayling, 



PHYS. How do you know? 



HAL. By his mode of rising. He is 

 lying at the top of the water, taking the flies 

 as they sail down by him, which a grayling 

 scarcely ever does. He rises rapidly from 

 the bottom or middle of the water, on the 

 contrary darting upwards, and having 

 seized his fly, returns to his station. See, 

 there a grayling has risen. I do not mean, 

 however, that this habit is invariable ; I have 

 sometimes seen trout feed like grayling, and 

 grayling like trout, but neither of these fish 

 emits bubbles of air in rising, as dace and 

 chub do. , 



PHYS. I have one! He has taken my 

 blue dun and must be a small one, for he 

 plays with no vigour. 



HAL. He is about jibs, a fish. of two 



