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hard to get away. When you fee he is almoft 

 exhaufted, draw him gently (keeping as much out 

 of fight as poflible) upon the more. 



If riming from a high bank, you will perhaps 

 require a landing-net under fuch circumftances 

 (though I confefs I rarely ufe one myfelf). There 

 is generally fome little nook or cranny, be the 

 bank ever fo fteep, into which, if you have pa- 

 tience, you will be able to draw a tired trout. 

 Take my advice, (I fpeak feelingly, having broken 

 fundry tops from not acting up to it,) and never 

 try to lift a trout of good fize out of the water 

 with your rod. With a flight plunge or two he 

 would be fure to break his hold, or your tackle, 

 and, if motionlefs, his dead weight would fo drain 

 your rod, as to make you repent the foolifh at- 

 tempt. 



With a dozen or fo of laflfprings, three or four 

 trout, a grayling, and fome few roach and chub in 

 your bafket, which the Wye will give you an op- 

 portunity of putting there what more for a novice 

 would you require ? If you are not above taking 

 good advice, making ufe of the ordinary fenfes you 

 may be blefled with, I fee no reafon why you 

 mould not return home fimilarly furnifhed from 

 the banks of the lovely Wye. 



