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On the Surface or Flush Rises. 



Head-and-tail rises to wet duns or spent spinners or 

 nymphs of duns or gnats suspended inert in the 

 surface film. 



Subaqueous Rises. 



Bulging to nymphs. 



Bulging to hatching caddis flies, such as the grannom. 



Nymphing in eddies ) 



Nymphing in streams J to moMe ^P^ 



There are doubtless other types which a more observant 

 eye would be able to distinguish, and there must be many 

 among the large body of fishers with the fly who are well 

 qualified to indicate them. 



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There is one form of rise which I have not dealt with, 

 to which, indeed, it is difficult to give precise designation. 

 Speaking generally, when one sees the surface broken one 

 says, " There is a rise," and one means that the surface 

 is broken by the emerging or almost emerging neb of a 

 trout. But the rise I am here speaking of is quite other 

 than that. True, there is a boil on the surface, but it is 

 not an indication that the trout is there. On the contrary, 

 it is an indication that he is gone. And, if he has taken 

 the fly, any hope of hooking him that is based on striking 

 when the boil is seen is likely to be vain. It will be too 

 late, probably much too late. This form of rise is much 

 commoner in fast, fairly deep water than in water that 

 is slow or smooth. And when the angler finds that he is 



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