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spinner, but it was the other sex, the claret spinner, that 

 was being taken. For when at length a seaTs-fur-bodied 

 imitation was presented three handsome trout, one after 

 another, accepted at the first offer, and then all was over 

 for the evening. 



Had it been July there might have been a prolongation 

 of sport by reason of the blue-winged olive rise coming on 

 after the fall of spinner. This fly the trout will be found 

 to take as well and boldly in open as in weedy water. 



Enough has been said to suggest that the advice fre- 

 quently tendered to keep away from the river for ten days 

 or a fortnight after weed-cutting is not particularly good 

 advice. 



