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be cast just above where the head of the 

 trout is adjudged to be, and worked into 

 the angler's bank, and it must never be 

 kept still, otherwise the fish will at once 

 perceive the deception and at once decline 

 it." Mr. Dewar then mentions a dry-fly 

 angler of great skill who is very successful 

 in fishing in this manner with a big Alder. 

 It is more than probable that in these cases 

 the Alder is taken for a Corixa, or some- 

 thing very like it, as the colour, size, and 

 movements are somewhat similar. 



The Marquis of Granby, in the preface 

 to Mr. Dewar's book, also speaks highly 

 of a sunk alder for " tailing " trout. 



" To kill ' tailers' in broad daylight and 

 in low water is quite an art in itself," is 

 another quotation from The Book of. the Dry 

 Fly upon this mode of fishing, and though 

 the author points out that this is not true 

 dry-fly fishing, still if the fisherman's con- 

 science allows him to use a sunk Alder 

 down stream and worked in this manner, I 

 think it should also allow him to use an 

 imitation Conxa under similar circum- 

 stances. 



I should not have dragged the writings 



