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it happened to be a profitless wait, for the big fish 
was evidently a thought-reader: anyhow, not 
taking any risk, he departed. For consolation 
there was the recollection of the thrilling moment 
nine years previously on the Severn, and the 
reflection that I had profited by it, at any rate so 
far as effective policy was concerned. 
When a bigger fish attacks a smaller fish 
which is hooked, the angler may have an exciting 
experience, that is, if the bigger fish becomes 
involved in the fray. On the Severn one fisher- 
man of my acquaintance was playing a grayling 
on very fine gut, when a jack, estimated at about 
three pounds, went for it, and got a hold. Both 
were played for several minutes, but the jack 
escaped, Mr. R. B. Marston had better luck once 
when May-fly fishing on the Piddle, near Ware- 
ham, He had risen a trout and was playing it, 
when a pike dashed out at it. Mr. Marston was 
master of the situation, Skilfully and patiently 
he played both pike and trout—though the trout 
was a comparative infant, and helpless at that, 
and eventually he landed both. The pike weighed 
twelve pounds, the trout one and a half pounds. 
The gut used was 2X. A double trophy in a 
glass case—the May-fly still in the trout’s mouth, 
the trout still in the pike’s mouth, just as when 
they were landed—now bears testimony to a very 
remarkable feat, which only a very clever angler 
could have accomplished. The sight of these 
specimens—I have been privileged to enjoy it— 
makes one realize what possibilities fishing holds. 
