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uncut weed alternately with bars of clean bright 

 gravel. The width of the bars of weed should 

 in no case exceed, say, ten yards, and of the 

 intervening gravel, from ten to fifteen yards. 

 Each portion of each shallow, however, requires 

 special study and special arrangement. 



For example, in any shallow from which in 

 dry summers the water runs off so much as to 

 render it too thin for successful fishing, it is 

 essential to leave dense bars of weed, especially 

 at the lower end, so as to retard the flow of the 

 water. Where the growth of the weeds is 

 usually very luxuriant, it is well to contract the 

 width of the bars of weed and expand the 

 breadth of the bars of gravel. The setting out 

 of these alternate bars of weed and gravel 

 should be carefully planned out beforehand, so 

 that every advantage is taken of the natural set 

 of the stream to provide favourable resting 

 places and feeding places for the fish. 



If, when the shallow is cut in bars, it should 

 be found that the rstream is penned back too 

 much, narrow longitudinal runs cut here and 

 there through the weed bars, or at the sides, 

 will let the water down. When setting out 

 these runs, it is well to arrange them in 

 alternate weed bars on either side of the 

 stream, and in case the flow of water is still too 

 much impeded, to cut similar runs down the 



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