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water, and also dividing the angler's attention, when it 

 would pay much better to have it concentrated on one 

 fly only, and fish this one really carefully in all the 

 eddies and corners. 



This may not be very orthodox doctrine, but our 

 experience is that when fewer flies are used the more fish 

 are caught, simply because fewer are missed. Although 

 at times fewer may be risen, a greater proportion of 

 them will be hooked. 



On a crowded water, when following someone else, 

 it is advisable to use a different fly to the one the first 

 man is using, on the same principle as changing the 

 fly when a fish is missed. And again, fish that refuse 

 a fly of one colour may rise eagerly to one of another 

 colour and form. 



