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The American Salmon-fisherman. 



Now the salmon may lie at one side or the other, or in 

 the middle, or in any intermediate part of the pool. There- 

 fore that fly which begins its career on the farther side of 

 the pool and swings completely across it to the nearer 

 side, must pass before the noses of more salmon, and must 

 be more likely to encounter one having a taste for fly, 

 than if it traversed a more restricted path. The purpose, 

 then, is to display the fly over as much of the surface of 

 the pool as is conveniently possible, and to make it swim 

 across the current, instead of up or down stream, in so 

 doing. The following diagram will illustrate this. 



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Fig. 18. 



The arrow shows the direction of the current. 



A represents the angler; A JB, the first position of the 



