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another kind are almost equally hopeless. 

 These are they in which the water, 

 though not whirling, looks as if it were 

 boiling violently ; heaving up in sections 

 and sinking down again ; on and on so, 

 in unceasing fretfulness. Now or then a 

 trout is taken from such a bay ; but it is 

 not a comfortable place. Just watch the 

 leaves and twigs in it, noting how they 

 are tossed up and down, this way and 

 that ; and you will understand why, as a 

 rule, trout shun such a caldron. 



Where, then, are we to fish ? Well, 

 that will be best explained through an 

 example. Just beside the first hole on 

 the golf-course at Aberfeldy there is an 

 ideal bay. At that place, about 200 yards 

 below General Wade's famous bridge, the 

 channel of the river is very wide, so wide 

 that at ordinary times the water fills only 

 the northern half, leaving the other dry ; 

 the halves are separated by a long bank 

 of gravel. When the river has risen 

 about three feet the bank is submerged 

 and the half of the channel which was 



