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did a big grayling, hooked shortly after- 

 wards. These were not by any means 

 the only fish which I have witnessed 

 taking fright and flight amid similar 

 circumstances. All fishermen of any 

 considerable experience will admit that 

 they have seen the same thing often. 



Who shall say how it is to be ex- 

 plained ? Many trout that are hooked 

 win free, and it has been assumed that 

 they bequeath to their progeny an aver- 

 sion to gut ; but no similar conjecture is 

 plausible in relation to the fear of the 

 landing-net. Only a very few of the 

 trout once in the meshes have escaped 

 to communicate their experience, or to 

 translate it, through their progeny, into 

 racial cunning. Nevertheless, nearly all 

 big trout shy at the net ! 



Another engaging problem is presented 

 by the trout's bearing towards flies of 

 different types. Consider Canon Green- 

 well's Glory. That lure, much in use 

 about this time of the season, has two 

 distinct dresses. In one of them the 



