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chapter, adjust themselves to any flow ; 

 but the Twin Trees Pool is not one of 

 them. It is in ply only when there are 

 two or three inches of water running in 

 the channel through the island of gravel 

 which bounds it on the north. Then it is 

 exactly right : heaving and wavy from 

 the violence of the rapids just above, yet 

 of such gentle current that you can manage 

 the flies pleasantly while casting upstream. 

 Any time in April when the water is at 

 this height and the March Browns or the 

 large duns or both are out, you shall see 

 rises. The pool is short, not much more 

 than twenty yards, and there are never 

 many rises, usually not more than three 

 or four ; but the trout are large, and 

 sometimes, if you go about the matter in 

 tactful detail, you can have them all. The 

 procedure, of course, is to begin with the 

 one nearest you, at the end of the pool, 

 preventing him, when hooked, from 

 running upstream, to scare the others ; 

 to take the next -nearest in the same 

 way ; and so on, until the one that has 



