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of an angler with rod and line upon the bank ; and 
as nothing will familiarise them to such an appari- 
tion, we draw the conclusion that that apparition had 
better keep out of sight and fish up stream. More- 
over, the fact that the natural food floats down is 
anything but a reason that the artificial lure in imi- 
tation of that food should be pulled up. 
‘We must confess, however, that fishing up stream 
with fly has not been adopted by a large portion of 
the angling community, and that for various reasons. 
In spite of the strong manner in which, in our Prac- 
tical Angler, we cautioned our readers about the 
difficulties of fishing up stream, numbers who read 
the arguments for it, and were struck with the sound- 
ness of the theory, thought they saw at a glance the 
cause of their previous want of success, and that in 
future the result would be different. Having equipped 
themselves a Ja Practical Angler, and even takena copy 
of that excellent work in their pockets, they started 
with high hopes on their new career, but the result 
was not different, and after one or two trials with no 
better success, not a few have condemned fishing up 
stream as erroneous and ourselves as impostors ; 
though we imagine the fault lies with themselves. 
We have met anglers fishing down stream—and this 
is no supposititious case, but one which we have seen 
over and over again—with a copy of this said volume 
in their pockets, who complained that they had got 
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