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order and there are many fish rising in this 

 large deep pool, some of which are large 

 grayling. The blue dun is on in quantity, 

 and there is both cloud and wind, which 

 half an hour ago we had no right to expect. 

 Let me advise you to use three flies of dif- 

 ferent shades of the dun: the stretcher, a 

 pale blue with yellow body; the first drop- 

 per, a winged fly with dun body; and the 

 third, a similar fly with dark body. There, 

 you see; he rose and refused your stretcher 

 and again he has a second time refused it. 

 I think the colour of the dubbing is too 

 bright: try a winged fly for the stretcher 

 with a greenish body. Good he has taken 

 it, and ought to be a large fish. Now we 

 have him : he is at least sixteen inches long, 

 and in good season. Ornither, I advise you 

 to use the same kind of fly, and to put up 

 your tackle precisely in the same way as 

 Poietes has done. 



POIET. How well they rise! At that 

 moment I had two on my line : one of them 

 is gone, but I hope I shall land the other. 



HAL. Fish with activity while the cloud 



