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variety for appreciative and comprehending eyes to 

 observe. 



But now you have reached the spot where you 

 should start fishing, so put your rod and tackle 

 together and get to work. Hereabouts the heather 

 begins to spread down to the side of the tiny stream, 

 and thus adds to the physical comfort of the fisher- 

 man ; for he can fish all the water while walking or 

 kneeling on this softest of carpets. 



Now, what sort of hook vill you have fixed to 

 your cast, which should not be more than some four 

 feet long ? A single hook, or a Stewart tackle ? 

 The sizes shown in the accompanying diagrams 

 are those which, as a rule, are most advisable. 

 In the case of the single hook you are less liable 

 to be 'hung up' in stones, or bank edges, or other 

 obstructions, supposing the stream you are fishing to 

 be a small one and much intersected with boulders, 

 rocks, and other fishermen's worries ; but, on the 

 other hand, with the single hook you are much more 

 liable to miss your fish when striking. With Stewart 

 tackle, either double or treble hooked, you do not 

 lose so many trout as when using only a single hook, 

 but naturally you get more often caught up in the 

 hundred and one things which seem to be placed in a 

 river principally for the purpose of testing the measure 



